As we think about Jesus as the eternal sovereign, we remember that this promise came about in times of distress, and that it can provide not only challenge to those…
On All Saints, we remember the hopes we have of a future beyond our understanding, and in which the final barriers between God and ourselves are removed. And we pause…
The protestant reformation, begun in response to exploitation of the poor, reminds us to always look for opportunities to hold ourselves accountable to the demands of justice.
Jesus lays out what it looks like to forgive as we ought to forgive. In his trying examples, he highlights all the de-escalation we can do much more easily.
The Holy Spirit empowers us all in different ways. When we are most alone, know that the Holy Spirit remembered you, too.
Today's text is graphic, painful, and destructive, concerning sexual violence against Tamar by her half-brother Amnon. When looking at this too-familiar act and responses to it from 2500 years ago,…
In the election season, as we become focused on the group we are a part of and our righteousness, it is important to remember that it is what comes out…
Hebrews 2 illustrates what it means that Jesus was fully human, and why it was important that he was.
If only we'd listened to Paul's admonitions about judgement in Romans 2! These verses not only lay out the ways we could have avoided millennia of antisemitism, but also how…
The story of Abigail and Nabal reminds us that the prophets and scribes of old often remembered the women, left off the lists of kings, who made the events of…
Romans 12 contains Paul's illustration of what he thinks it looks like to embody the grace we have received, leaving us with some of his most famous and memorable turns…
The dichotomy of insecurity and inspiration that came into Jersualem's royal household serves as a model for our reactions to disruption throughout our lives--including in the national parks.
As a people, we so often want to avoid the burden of making decisions. God is there to remind us that we're never alone when we do.
The book of 1 Samuel reminds us that power tends to corrupt. One antidote to the corruption of power is the vesting of it in all of God's people.
Throughout the Bible, we see women's stories subsumed into the stories of their sons and husbands. Taking them independently, we can glimpse pictures of the ways power is enforced upon…
The church described early in the Book of Acts exemplified caring for all. For them, it meant the sacrifice by those who had much to create equality among the whole…
What is the Holy Trinity, exactly, and why is it important to understand? One reason is that it informs our understanding of God as beyond the bounds of our easy…
Progressive Christian Theology means learning from the stories in the Bible that life is complicated and messy, and that the only thing in front of us is to understand the…
