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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...

Tullian Tchividjian’s One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World speaks a word of...

In his new book, Living by Faith, Dwelling in Doubt, Kyle Cupp presents a personal...

Lectionary Reflections for October 27, 2013 Joel 2:23-32; Psalm 65; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 14-16; Luke 18:9-14 Anne Lamott...

A well-known saying from Zen Buddhism notes: "Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water....

“Power is a gift” says Andy Crouch in his excellent new book Playing God: Redeeming the...

Lectionary Reflections for October 20, 2013 Jeremiah 31:27-34 Psalm 119:97-104 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 Today’s...

Lectionary Reflections for October 13, 2013 Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; Psalm 66:1-12; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 Today’s readings...

Lectionary Reflections for October 6, 2013 Lamentations 1:1-6; Psalm 137; 2 Timothy 1:1-14; Luke 17:5-10 This...

Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once spoke of the phenomenon of “cheap grace” and contrasted it with...

I wonder if I will have the courage to trust God, believing, with the Apostle...