The gospel read for Trinity 4 in Year A of Matt 10.40–42 is perhaps the strangest choice in the whole lectionary—at only ...

Luke 14:26 (RSV) If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. The same ...

Does he really mean that, or are we misunderstanding this final effort in his missionary discourse as he urges the disciples ...

The gospel reading for Trinity 3 in Year A is Matthew 10.24–39—we continue to work through Jesus' teaching on mission in ...

Find today’s readings here. Anyone who has lived in a place that alternates between wet and dry seasons knows the power of returning storms. Everything changes with the rain. Dry ground turns green ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

In the New Testament, Jesus makes a surprising choice when he begins gathering his closest followers. Instead of choosing highly educated religious leaders or scholars, he calls ordinary fishermen to ...

Too often people claiming to be Christians utilize blatant mistruths to advance their own agendas. Whether it is homophobia or pro-life ideology that they are attempting to put forth, they posses a ...

Though something we may work for, for which we find returns, the invitation to a life of faith comes by God’s grace that ...