• Don’t ask me if I want my receipt

    Don’t ask me if I want my receipt

    This simple interaction—one many of us experience multiple times a day—is becoming far more complicated than necessary.

  • Maybe it’s the walking on water

    Maybe it’s the walking on water

    For a story that includes both Jesus and Peter walking on water, the fact that it isn’t more familiar is confounding.

  • Maybe we’d rather be sinking

    Maybe we’d rather be sinking

    This week, we’re dealing with fear, desire, faith, and hope. And strangely, it seems, we’d rather go with the fear over everything else.

  • Miracles—the hope and fear of being awestruck

    Miracles—the hope and fear of being awestruck

    We usually talk about miracles in a positive light. But what about the stuff that freaks us out? And why does it?

  • Between Proper 13 + 14 (Year A)

    Between Proper 13 + 14 (Year A)

    Before Jesus reveals the extent of his power to his followers, he needs to free himself (and them) from exhaustion.

  • New Love

    New Love

    We encounter the Transfiguration with our own skewed vision of the world; and our precious place in it.

  • Why laws don’t actually exist

    Why laws don’t actually exist

    We treat the law as if it were something other than the means of a people to create community with one another.

  • I haven’t gone back yet

    I haven’t gone back yet

    Giving up social media while on vacation, I’ve learned a few things about how I really use it to kill time.