• Keep it about the Good News—for Epiphany 5B

    Keep it about the Good News—for Epiphany 5B

    When we read about Jesus’s exorcizing of demons, many of us focus on belief and facts, rather than the message Jesus shares.

  • Silencing the demons

    Silencing the demons

    What do we give up when we let evil speak? When we let evil be the only voice? Aren’t we trying to do good in this world?

  • 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.