Made for Love||Paul sets up a sharp contrast: either saved by faith or ensnared in laws. Faith or Law? Would Jewish converts worship alongside Gentile converts as one community? In the faith tradition that goes back to ...

Doubt||Everything is going strong. We have momentum. Success fires us up. Until events strike hard. Power slips away. I am alone.|Did we leave slavery only to wither in the desert heat? Where is God? Your presence is not ...

The Harvest is for All||"He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor." (2 Corinthians 9:9)|Today's readings tell us who we are: sower, seed, and harvest. The sower rises early and casts seeds out into the world. Small living ...

When I look for the thread that holds so much of life together, it is the thread of love: learning or seeking or failing to love. Is it all about love? Love: the cheapest coin of the realm, the huckster's cry, the confetti, ...

How God Loves the World||After the torture and execution of their companion, the disciples were broken. In terror, they had run away and abandoned Jesus. Was his blood on their hands also? With trauma, time stands still. ...

What lies Hidden in the Ordinary||"If you remove from your midst oppression ... Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday." (Isaiah 58:9-10)|Religion has rhythms. Crawling ...

|The Ascent|"On this mountain the Lord of hosts…will wipe away the tears from all faces." (Isaiah 25: 6-8)|To set out on a mountain trail takes us away from the ordinary.  It is better to travel light, so we leave stuff ...

|"Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?" (Luke: 24: 32) |During their three years together, everything for the disciples had changed. Their old lives had ...

The Fall||Genesis opens in wonder as the universe soars like a symphony into the void. From the canopy of stars down to the slug under the rock, all is good. God moves across the waters and what is new unfolds. Creation ...

God's Dwelling ||The kingdom was strong. Solomon had been chosen by his father to rule. His rivals were killed. Peace was at hand. The new king at first remained faithful. Like David, he remembered how small is a man in ...