Tag: Prophetic

  • The Light Comes

    The Light Comes

    In the Feast of Stephen, we confront what light coming to break the darkness looks like in practice—when we face it in our midst.

  • Between Proper 25 + 27 (Year A)

    Between Proper 25 + 27 (Year A)

    This week’s gospel comes to us as a final exam—not a random teaching. That context, in the last days, is central to our understanding of it.

  • Becoming Prophetic

    Becoming Prophetic

    When John the Baptist confronts religious leaders in line waiting to be baptized, we are confronted with the reality of change.

  • Jonah and the undisciplined opposition to prophesy

    Jonah and the undisciplined opposition to prophesy

    Like Jonah, we fear to live into our calling. Then hate those we’re called to help. It isn’t about being good, but becoming it.

  • In these fields

    In these fields

    We often mistake the pursuit of justice as a problem. Then punish the justice seeker rather than extrajudicial violence.

  • The Presence of Good

    The Presence of Good

    The gospel is always social. It is the tangible intersection of faith and action: of belief and the active living into a life of wholeness and hope.

  • Between — From Prophet to Pessimist

    Between — From Prophet to Pessimist

    The story of John the Baptist gives us a new lens of skepticism as he sits in prison totally unaware of the work Jesus is really up to.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson’s prophetic moment – Zack Hunt and Cosmos

    I love taking the opportunity to share a post I would’ve written. Even better is when it is a post about finding GOD in the unlikeliest of places, including from the lips of a noted skeptic. That’s my kind of work. Zack Hunt nails it this time with his “A Lesson On Faith From Neil…