Authority
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Who wants a King? – the seduction of power
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1 min read
The challenge of crowning Jesus as king is that he doesn’t want the title. There’s a problem, too, with insisting it.
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Tracing two lines back
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7 min read
The blessed servant or the righteous king lineage. When these two stories compete, which wins? And what does this say about us?
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You Can’t Make Me
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4 min read
The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.
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Between — Back to John the Baptist
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8 min read
All this jumping around in the lectionary is making me dizzy. Now we’re back to John the Baptist. But a question remains unanswered.
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In-Between: Luke 12:57-13:9
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9 min read
A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 15C and Proper 16C. After several troubling passages and challenging preaching opportunities, Proper 16C will give us something positive to preach on. That is, as always, if we’re avoiding our context. Or dwelling on what it means for Jesus to be…
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This Tuesday of Holy Week
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5 min read
Jesus’s confrontation at the Temple challenges us to see past their questions of authority, but the reason for the questioning. Jesus ducks their questions because they are questioning the authority of God. On Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem in a parody of authority. And after the crowds died down, he took a quick look inside…