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Needing a break
For SundayEighth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your…
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Limits of Power / Limits of Belief
For SundaySixth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord,…
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Jesus’s Backup
This troubling passage about family isn’t about who is in the family, but about what being family means for the world.
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Jesus’s Life Was Always In Danger
For SundaySecond Sunday after PentecostProper 5B Collect O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and…
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The Hidden Transformation of Nicodemus
For SundayTrinity Sunday Collect Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at…
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Beyond the Spectacle
The Pentecost invites us to be part of something bigger. An invitation which continues to be revolutionary.
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Not Much of a Gardener
For SundayEaster 5B Collect Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who…
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Not the Worst News
The thing about Jesus’s rebuke of Peter is that we don’t see it coming. But we should. We’re often in Peter’s shoes.