Scripture
Animal midrash
Jewish scholar Laura Duhan-Kaplan opens our eyes to biblical birds, insects, and mammals.
August 7, Ordinary 19C (Luke 12:32-40)
In the shadow of uncertainty, fear and hope look similar.
July 31, Ordinary 18C Luke (12:13-21)
The lilies of the field don’t have student loans.
July 24, Ordinary 17C (Hosea 1:2-10)
If Hosea is a factual account, it’s horrific. If it’s an allegory, it’s still horrific.
July 17, Ordinary 16C (Luke 10:38-42)
I wonder whether Martha could feel cared for by Jesus.
White supremacy’s wee little men
Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.
July 10, 15C (Amos 7:7-17)
The prophets God sends among us are often vilified, distorted, and silenced.
The Bible’s imprints on US politics are noticeably masculine
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza wants us to reform our collective subconscious.
July 3, Ordinary 14C (2 Kings 5:1-14)
At last the protests fade away and we come to seven little splashes in the Jordan river.
June 26, Ordinary 13C (Luke 9:51–62)
No one who [fill in the blank] is fit for the kingdom. Ouch.
June 19, Ordinary 12C (1 Kings 19:1-15a)
God never intended for Elijah to carry the full weight of challenging the halls of power.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald
In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.
June 12, Trinity Sunday C (John 16:12-15)
We are not the first to face complex global crises and wonder, “How can we possibly come back from this?”
June 5, Pentecost C (John 14:8-17, 25-27)
The Spirit-driven tendency to undermine barriers goes all the way back to Peter and Paul.
A New Testament that connects the heart languages of First Nations people
The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.”
May 29, Easter 7C (Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26)
I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.