Tag: power

  • It isn’t just that Pearl Jam was right

    It isn’t just that Pearl Jam was right

    We have treated the time Pearl Jam took Ticketmaster to court like a foolish endeavor. Now we’re the fools.

  • A Cause for Celebrating

    A Cause for Celebrating

    The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.

  • God had him trade water for sand

    God had him trade water for sand

    A Poem of Temptation

  • The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.

  • Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.

  • Listening

    Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

  • Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation

    Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation

    As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.

  • The Right Thing

    The Right Thing

    We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…