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Kerry Weber’s Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the...

Lectionary Reflections for the Sixty Sunday after the Epiphany – February 16, 2014 Deuteronomy 30:15-20...

Lectionary Reflections for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany – February 9, 2014 Isaiah 58:...

A Response to Death at the Movies: Hollywood's Guide to the Hereafter, by Lyn and Tom...

A Conversation with Edward Gilbreath’s Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the...

Lectionary Reflections on the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany – February 2, 2014 Micah 6:1-8...

Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, January 26, 2014 Isaiah 9:1-4 ; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; I Corinthians...

There is a saying, “God is like Elvis, you see God everywhere.” In light of...

Lectionary Reflections on The Second Sunday after the Epiphany  Sunday, January 19, 2014   Isaiah 49:1-7...

Lectionary Reflections on The Baptism of Jesus for January 12, 2014 Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm  29...

Lectionary Reflections on Epiphany Sunday – January 5, 2014 Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 Ephesians...

Lectionary Reflections for the First Sunday of Christmas – December 29, 2013 Isaiah 63:7-9 Psalm...

I am very appreciative of Robert J. Cormier’s Better Than We Believed (now featured at the...

It is a great joy to read the words of another mystical author, Julian of...

Angels are at the heart of the Christmas Season. Gabriel appears to Mary, announcing that...

Lectionary Reflections for the Third Sunday in Advent  December 15, 2013 Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 1:46b-55a James...

Scholars, pastors, and laypeople alike are rediscovering the Jewishness of Jesus and the continuity between...

Lectionary Reflections for the Second Sunday of Advent December 8, 2013 Isaiah 10:1-11; Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew...

Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once described worship as an adventure of the spirit.  The same...

I have just passed my sixty-first birthday. It seems like almost yesterday I was going...

Lectionary Reflections for December 1 2013  Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 Advent...

As I read Susan Vogt’s Blessed by Less: Clearing Your Life of Clutter by Living...

Robert Tracy McKenzie does a masterful job of liberating the pilgrims from the cultural and...

A Response to The Bonhoeffer Reader, edited by  Clifford J. Green and Michael P. DeJonge...

For over forty years, I’ve celebrated each Christmas season by watching It’s a Wonderful Life....

Lectionary Reflections on The Reign of Christ Sunday November 24, 2013 Isaiah 23:1-6; Psalm 46; Colossians 1:11-20; Luke...

Lectionary Reflections for November 17, 2013 Divine Creativity and Human Agency  Taken together today’s lectionary...

A wise theologian once noted that we should not speculate on the furniture of heaven...

Lectionary Reflections for  November 10, 2013 Haggai 1:15b-2:9; Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; John 20:27-38 Today’s...

N. T. Wright’s magisterial text Paul and the Faithfulness of God is destined to become...