• Good Morning, Friends!

    Good Morning, Friends!

    Episode 56 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Getting Apocalyptic

    Getting Apocalyptic

    We begin Advent with an apocalyptic gospel—here’s why it is not only fitting, but important for us to deal with our own apocalyptic lives.

  • Persistent in faith—for Advent 1B

    Persistent in faith—for Advent 1B

    We begin Advent with apocalyptic imagery, not to scare us straight as much as remind us that God’s promise is change.

  • Advent—it begins with change

    Advent—it begins with change

    As we enter a season full of tradition and desire to remember practices from the past, we are reminded that the season is about change.

  • Between Proper 29 + Advent 1 (Year A to B)

    Between Proper 29 + Advent 1 (Year A to B)

    Moving from one Year A in the lectionary to Year B is a strangely smooth transition, as we continue to ruminate in difficult ideas.

  • We get to love like this

    We get to love like this

    The challenge of loving like Jesus isn’t that we’ll do it wrong. It’s that we think it depends on our being a good person.

  • When have you needed a truck?

    When have you needed a truck?

    The easy question we ask ourselves is “Is it possible that I will want it?” when we should be asking “how often will I actually use it?

  • There’s quite a lot we can do

    There’s quite a lot we can do

    There imperative of the gospel forces us to deal with more than who we are; we are forced to examine our actions in everything we do.