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Foreign — faith and the challenge of proximity
Jesus challenges our expectations of community, of borders, and how we treat those around us. Regardless of where they come from.
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Recording me in the street is antisocial behavior
We know that the cameras we use to protect ourselves invade privacy. But they have a bigger cost to us in public trust.
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Welcome — our radical orthodoxy
The concept of welcome is generous and novel today. It used to be normal. That difference is important for us to recognize.
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Becoming Samaritan
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus isn’t giving us a natural reversal of roles. He’s exposing how our bias actually works. learning to love in a culture of hateProper 10C | Luke 10:25-37 Good stories like this one have many layers. We can peel back one to see what’s underneath. Then peel again.…
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The Encounter With the Lawyer
The most important part of the passage about the Good Samaritan in Luke may not be the parable itself. It is the two questions which provoke its telling. What must I do to inherit eternal life? And who is my neighbor?’ I usually enter the gospel by reading over the last chapter. I want to…
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When We Pray
a homily for Proper 12C Text: Luke 11:1-13 The Lord Praying They have left the house of Mary and Martha and it says Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” Jesus was praying,…
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Someone’s In the Kitchen With Martha…
a homily for Proper 11C Text: Luke 10:38-42 Dividing Each Other Before we get into the meat of this week’s gospel story, I want us to acknowledge something. This is a divisive gospel. There are many among us that feel recognized and justified. They feel like Mary. They love to be reminded that they are…
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Along the Road: The Good Samaritan, Trayvon Martin, and what it means to be a neighbor
a homily for Proper 10C Text: Luke 10:25-37 Unwrapping the Layers We call this the Parable of the Good Samaritan. A traveler is beaten, left for dead, passed by on the road to Jerusalem, and finally helped by this stranger. It is a story so familiar, so recognizable, that any number of us could tell…