We often fool ourselves into thinking messengers who challenge us are flawed and should be dismissed. But Jesus tells us that being only human is an opportunity for hope.
It's easy, when reading the healing stories of Jesus, to miss the stories of the people being healed. It's important to listen to the details, so that we can hear…
In a Christian world, we sometimes miss the wonder and the challenge of a Christ born into his own world. How can we experience and feel the transforming love Christ…
The core challenge of the Good News to people from the earliest days of the church has been: what does faith look like?
On Reformation Day, we remember always the foundations of our faith, our lodestone for forming and re-forming our church: Nothing can come between us and the love of God.
Sometimes, the world around us overwhelms our sense of awe at God's creation. In those moments, we must find ways to praise God for the opportunities for change in front…
Lois was a champion of both intellectual engagement and bringing our service out into the world. We will miss her greatly.
The story of the early church is one of unlearning assumptions and learning the power of the Holy Spirit. When Philip ran into the Ethiopian eunuch on the road, the…
Loving all the torah, studying it, meditating it, understanding our feelings over the passages we hate to love and love to hate, and love to love, and bring comfort, and…
Sometimes, leaders say things that are good ideas, but don't necessarily bring us closer to God. Sometimes we have good ideas that don't bring us closer to God. Sometimes we…
In a world where government policies are being enacted to encourage fear of outsiders and immigrants, we are reminded that we have always had strangers in our midst, whose very…
Last week, we started our stories with the Story of Me. Where do we come from. This year, we continue with the great definition of the Story of Us that…
Sometimes, words of challenge have to come from those closest to us.
Paul's meditations on love remind us that love is not always comfortable. Image: Socrates bekijkt zichzelf in een spiegel, Bernard Vaillant, Jusepe de Ribera, 1672, via the Rijksmuseum.
Jesus, standing in a long tradition, take the opportunity to show us the opportunities to learn what the commandments mean by looking at the world around us.
The stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we stand for sometimes depend greatly on our point of view. What happens when the perspective changes? Note: an…
Why is it that the disciples were only ready to go out and spread the word after Jesus was unable to perform acts of power in his hometown? Does his…
We are reminded in this commonly-cited passage that Christianity is a religion that speaks frequently of a judgement in the kingdom of God, even if we leave such judgements up…
