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Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
Preparing for this week’s gospel, we should remember the context is in the midst of Holy Week, amid the effort to silence Jesus.
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No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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Algorithmic Love
Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.
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Wading through grace
This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.
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God is Love—for Lent 4B
What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.
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Evangelism is more than Bible verses
The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.
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Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year B)
Before we can jump into John 3:16 and God’s love for the world, we should take a minute to talk about Jesus’s visit with Nicodemus.

