• Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    In Jesus’s visit to Capernaum, we are confronted with our own stuff about the world. But the context offers us a different look at things.

  • Willing To Be Amazed

    Willing To Be Amazed

    A recurring theme in the gospels is that people are astounded and amazed by Jesus. How many Christians actually are?

  • The Equality Straw Man

    The Equality Straw Man

    There’s a reason the way we talk about equality in the 21st Century isn’t working. It is because it isn’t supposed to.

  • Accumulating Knowledge

    Accumulating Knowledge

    Episode 64 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Where are we in this?

    Where are we in this?

    This week’s gospel can be read shallow or deep. But if we go deeper, will we like what we find? About Jesus or ourselves?

  • Only the Beginning

    Only the Beginning

    Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.

  • Sorry folks, Jesus isn’t normal

    Sorry folks, Jesus isn’t normal

    So many Christians want to pretend like being a Christian is normal or that Jesus himself is normal, but his works amaze and frighten.

  • Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    Before we leave the call stories behind, we should really deal with what they mean for us. And for the gospel itself.