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​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...

“Each night, we secretly huddled around the wireless,” she remembered, “eagerly hoping to receive some coded message that meant,...

And just like that, the angel left Mary … and she was alone: alone with the consequences of saying yes to God; alone with her thoughts,...

For many, COVID has been one grand interruption! We were working and worshiping. studying and serving, building and buying … and then...

Jeremiah 33:14-16 November 28, 2021 Dr. Todd R. Wright “The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I...

“Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds!” says our scripture or as Eugene Peterson puts it in the Message,...

A few weeks ago, the route was different. The disciples brought Jesus a borrowed donkey and he descended from the Mount of Olives into...