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Professional or Common? Clothes and the making of man
Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.
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Wrestling with the wicked
The parable of the wicked tenants challenges us to see in it more than the Passion, but of the actions we treat as inevitable.
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Seeing the wicked or the good? — for Proper 22A
With a parable of wickedness, our minds turn to their own kind of wickedness, not redemption, or goodness. But they could.
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Rejected—and the morality of rejecting in return
Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.
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Between Proper 21 + 22 (Year A)
The confrontations in the Temple continue. And understanding how they got there, and how that makes us feel, is essential.
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Love is Living Art
In his exploration of authority, Jesus confronts those confronting him, and reveals a way of being in the world that can save us all.
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Why being non-political is a worthy political act
The existential challenge for libraries and other institutions is that they are the subject of political attacks the public doesn’t support.
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Why “they started it” is the defense of the guilty
At once obvious and devious, focusing on who starts a conflict is a clever way to avoid thinking about who is exploiting it.
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