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July 2025

July 21, 2025

Our Value Comes From Our Being, Not From Our Doing

In last Sunday's lectionary reading (Luke 10:38-42) we get to glimpse a friendship—that of Jesus...

May 2025

May 19, 2025

Trusting God’s Presence During Uncertainty

In the long passage this Sunday's lectionary reading is from, often called the ‘Farewell Discourses,’...

April 2025

April 23, 2025

Trust Over Creed: Are ‘Correct Beliefs’ What We Really Need?

On the surface, this week’s lectionary reading at the end of John (John 20:19-31) is...

March 2025

March 17, 2025

What To Do With Righteous Anger: A Meditation for Lent

Have you experienced a loss or misfortune and someone suggested it happened to you because...

February 2025

February 16, 2025

What Does it Mean to Love Your Enemy? On Holding Up A Mirror

Where Christianity gets especially real, where our faith is put to the test, is right...

January 2025

January 17, 2025

Changing Perspective from Within: ‘Signs’, Faith, and Doubt

In the story in this week’s lectionary gospel (John 2:1-11), Jesus tells his mother he...

November 2024

November 24, 2024

Upside-Down: Jesus’ Metaphor of ‘King’

Jesus' metaphor of 'king' is a focus this Sunday in my own tradition (Episcopal). And...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Transformed Hearts: Decoding ‘True Bread’ in John 6

{Meditation on John 6:24-35}. Imagine that someone you love is terminally ill, needing healing, and...

July 23, 2024

Sabbath Is About Balance and Nourishment

In a guestroom, I have a little wooden plaque that says, “Just live your little...

February 2024

February 13, 2024

How an Alternative Practice of Lent Inspires

A few years ago, I created a practice that brought Lent to life for me—a...

December 2023

December 23, 2023

Mary Teaches Blessedness at Christ-Mass

In our Christmas morning lectionary reading, Mary is greeted by the angel Gabriel as “the...

December 16, 2023

Advent: An Invitation to Remove Obstacles to the Divine

Have you found yourself in such intense struggle you could barely find a path forward?...

December 01, 2023

How is God Coming Into Our World? A Reflection on Advent

“Advent,” which means the arrival or the coming, is my favorite liturgical season. And yes,...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

How Humility Makes Way for Forgiveness

One of the main tenets of Christianity is the belief that we are transformed by...

October 17, 2023

‘The Mercy of the Fallen’: Using our Failures for Good

A repeated theme in the gospels is riddles. Both people trying to trick Jesus with...

October 09, 2023

Why Stewarding our Talents Starts with Gratitude

Whenever I talk about parables, I include the same reminder: a parable is a snapshot,...

September 2023

September 19, 2023

Using a Different Metric of Fairness: The Parable of the Vineyard Workers

The upcoming lectionary passage in Matthew 20:1-16 strikes me as timely. The attitude we see...

September 05, 2023

What Does it Mean Today to ‘Take Up Your Cross’?

What does it mean in our context to “take up one’s cross”? And how is...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Sharing Your Gifts is Essential to Human Flourishing

In last Sunday's gospel lectionary passage, Mt 16:13-20, we read about Peter receiving the “keys...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

How Stories Use What You Already Know

Let me tell you a little parable. The kingdom of God is like this: A...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

What Did Matthew 10:40-42 Mean in Jesus’ Culture?

Understanding the culture behind the scriptures helps much with certain passages. This week’s lectionary gospel...

June 06, 2023

You Can Change! Jairus and the Back of the Line

I often point out how in Jesus’ teaching of God’s vision, ‘the first will be...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

You Have the Ability to Set People Free: Finding the Power of Forgiveness

It’s been roughly two years since I lost my best friend, Brother Martin Gonzales. Martin...

May 09, 2023

Why The Slow Work of Transformation Beats Moralism

Transformation beats moralism. But as a young adult, effort was my mantra. And effort, coupled...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

The Mercy of the Fallen

The passage in this Sunday’s lectionary gospel intrigues (Mt 5:21-37). In it, Jesus tells his...

January 2023

January 10, 2023

How ‘calling’ Can Feel Like a Small Miracle

Sometimes the lectionary readings for a Sunday coalesce around a theme, and this week it...

December 2022

December 14, 2022

Facing the Difficult Thing: On Joseph’s Predicament

Part of what Advent is, and what Christmas is, is a time of telling stories—most...

December 06, 2022

The Arrival: Receiving the gift of Advent today

“Advent,” meaning the arrival or the coming is my favorite liturgical season. And yes, part...

November 2022

November 16, 2022

Upside-down: Four questions as we ponder the metaphor ‘king’

Whenever we talk about God, or the incarnational role of Jesus, we use metaphors. The...

November 01, 2022

All Saints’ Day: The continuum of life and death

Because today is All Saints’ Day, I’m remembering my best friend who died just over...

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