Tag: faith

  • Our Time

    Our Time

    John the Baptist and Andrew offer a hopeful vision of faith, adaptation, and trust at a time of great change.

  • Confidence and Grace

    Confidence and Grace

    It’s a weird feeling: having confidence in one’s own ability and belief in God’s grace. Especially when they meet.

  • Is there any faith?

    Is there any faith?

    Jesus tells stories that engage our assumptions; and drive us to consider what it is that we’re really avoiding.

  • Keeping Faith Today

    Keeping Faith Today

    This parable about persistence reveals that the point isn’t to always work hard. The point is that faith can demand it.

  • Inherit — what must I do to get it right?

    Inherit — what must I do to get it right?

    The question of inheritance is deceiving when it comes to faith. There’s something we’re trying to say without saying it.

  • Not In?

    Not In?

    The dangers of a seemingly anti-semitic passage and the challenge of dealing with what it is actually trying to do.

  • Expanding Peace

    Expanding Peace

    Thomas isn’t the paragon of doubt. He shows us how belief goes way beyond our narrow, post-enlightenment framing.

  • Driven by Faith or Fear?

    Driven by Faith or Fear?

    For SundayFifth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus…