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What is worship for?
Surely God isn’t a narcissist who demands our attention.
Getting justice and getting it right
Stanley Hauerwas’s The Peaceable Kingdom at 40
Practicing abolitionist spirituality
What are we willing to sacrifice for racial justice?
March 6, Lent 1C (Luke 4:1-13)
The wilderness can be a frightening landscape that whispers from the shadows, “You’re all alone.”
Faithful, unimportant work (Luke 4:21-30)
Jesus refuses at every turn to do something important, the things his neighbors thought he should do when he grew up.
January 30, Epiphany 4C (1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30)
If Jesus is with the other guy, how can he be with us?
January 23, Epiphany 3 (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21)
The word of God is living and active; it meets us where we are.
The temptation and other stories of desperation (Luke 4:1-13)
Jesus enacts the very things we humans have been unable to enact on our own.
March 10, Lent 1C (Luke 4:1-13)
Lent invites us to pay attention to our hunger.
A Jesus who can be hard to like (Luke 4:21-30)
What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?
Grading Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14-21)
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
February 3, Epiphany 4C (Luke 4:21–30)
There’s a lot of urgency in that single word today.
February 3, Epiphany 4C (Luke 4:21–30)
There’s a lot of urgency in that single word today.
January 27, Epiphany 3C (Luke 4:14-21)
How would Norman Rockwell have painted Jesus' homecoming to Nazareth?
January 27, Epiphany 3C (Luke 4:14-21)
How would Norman Rockwell have painted Jesus' homecoming to Nazareth?
Having faith in God is better than being certain about God
We don't need arguments from the pulpit. We need living water.
Psalm 91 in every time and place
“No evil shall befall us,” said St. Anthony in the desert, preachers during the Rwandan genocide, and Americans after 9/11.
Pope Francis says God doesn’t lead us into temptation. What does the Bible say?
Who tests Abraham, or Jacob, or Jesus—and why?
March 5, First Sunday in Lent
Matthew 4:1–11