I grew up when the big controversy was about teaching evolution in the public schools. Religious people said it violated their beliefs...

No one gets out of this life unscathed. It’s a universal truth. We all experience pain, grief, despair, or darkness of some sort. Even...

Last Sunday the leadership team discussed their responses to “Why Jesus?”  Or, “Why be Christian?” These were our responses. Lots of...

Jesus arrived in the most important place to every Israelite – Jerusalem. It literally means “City of Peace” and it was where the people...

Geography matters in the gospels. Over half of the gospel of Luke follows Jesus’ journey from Galilee in the north, uphill to Jerusalem...

Parables were Jesus’ preferred teaching strategy. There are 49 of these stories with meaning in the gospels and 16 of them are only in...

Simon the Pharisee sees a woman anointing Jesus’ feet. She’s a sinner, a woman, and she does not belong at his dinner party. Simon just...

God does it over and over and over – lifting up the lowly and doing great things through them. It reminds me of the Princess Bride when...

Holy Week takes us to the depths of despair in the crucifixion and then on Sunday, finding an empty tomb, everything that was sorrow...

This Sunday we’ll begin Holy Week with Jesus’s entrance into Jerusalem. He was pretty famous and a big crowd cheered him on. When he...

When we cry out our sorrow and grief to God, it is with confidence that God hears and God cares. It’s also with hope that things will...

In community, we are caught up in forces bigger than us, and we lament. We lament that sexism still exists. That racism is still part of...

I find lament difficult. Or maybe it’s the honesty part I find challenging. Merely the act of naming my sorrow and grief seems to...

Lent is a time of sorrow and sin, both of which we tend to run away from. Grief is hard and painful, so we lack patience with sorrow. Sin...

At our Monday Bible Study we are reading the gospel of John and learning that while the other gospels are all about following Jesus, John...

They say that the arrogant amongst us are actually covering up insecurity. If you’ve been accused of being arrogant, you might know what...

So much of  life is about uplifting others, putting them first and then coming in last ourselves. It takes courage! And it is...

Paul had every reason to be snarly and nasty. He was in prison, not eating well, and not out preaching the gospel like he wanted. But...

Paul was in prison, living in discomfort, under threat, and probably with not enough to eat. He had been preaching the good news of Jesus...

As we welcome the new year, we continue to celebrate Christmas, that God was born and walked among us. This Sunday we celebrate the end...