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In John’s vision, he sees “a new heaven and a new earth” and a “new Jerusalem”! This is good news! New and improved is always good news,...

Stitch by Stitch is an all-woman shop in Frankfurt that grew up as a collaboration between a couple German fashion designers and refugees...

You know the story of Saul’s dramatic conversion: one minute he is on his way to Damascus to arrest followers of the Way, the next he is...

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year,...

​​In John’s gospel, Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb while it is still dark. Why? She is not there to anoint the body – that’s already...

​Let me try and set the scene for you. The Holy City is flooded with people. (It is a bit like how people describe Charleston during the...

​Sometimes it can be hard to discern why certain texts are thrust together by the lectionary, like strangers on a subway car – some...

​Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann says, provocatively, “Churches should be the most honest place in town, not the happiest.” Why...

​There are so many well-known psalms! Just one phrase is enough to set people nodding in recognition. For instance: “The Lord is my...

Every year the lectionary invites us to begin this season by considering the story of Jesus’ testing in the wilderness. Matthew, Mark,...

“There's a spring in the mountain and it flows down to the town, from the river to the ocean, goes to whole world round that spring of...

​​​​​​Jesus hardly takes a breath after proclaiming the blessings and woes that we dealt with last week. He moves straight into a series...

​​​​​​Jeremiah’s images are familiar. He talks about shrubs in the desert - parched places, uninhabited salt land. We can almost feel the...

​​​​​​“In the year that King Uzziah died” Isaiah had a vision of the Lord sitting on the throne and the hem of his robe filled the...

​​​​​​If you’ve ever been to a wedding, there is a pretty good chance that you have heard at least part of this passage read. But that is...

​The body metaphor lifted up in our passage was not original to Paul. Others in the Roman world, especially politicians and philosophers,...

​Paul takes a deep breath before starting on a new topic with the Corinthians: giftedness. What does being gifted mean? ​​1 Corinthians...

​We Christians have had 2000 years to get used to the idea of baptism, but what do you suppose it meant to those who flocked out into the...

“Pilgrimage” is defined as a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place. After my experience this past summer – hiking 400...

Those days were just like any other: with people working to put food on the table before falling into an exhausted, restless sleep; with...