Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year B, RCL)

This is a fearful time, especially for those who are being targeted by some of the currents of our cultural wars.

“If you really want to live you’ve gotta die” is a puzzle that could leave you off kilter your whole life long.

Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.

I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.

Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism

On giving Eugene Peterson's The Message another chance

In ancient Israel, priests were the gates through which God poured mercy.

He faces it.

I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.

The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.

Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.

The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.

This month in 1980, the Salvadoran archbishop was assassinated—shortly after preaching on John 12.