Making Room

"Psalm 103 says God removes our sins 'as far as east is from west.' A short reflection on what that distance really means, ahead of Sunday's sermon."

Of the three persons of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the one most people are least sure about. It gets described an energy, a feeling, a dove, a flame, a wind...

The case for church is not that it's the best available provider of spiritual goods. The case is that it's trying to do something different that can't be done alone.

Before 'woke' became a political weapon, it meant something biblical: stay awake to what you'd rather not see. A reflection on reclaiming it.

There are somewhere around 45,000 Christian denominations in the world If Christianity is true, why can't the people who believe it agree on what it means?

Peter and Jeremiah both wanted a God who didn't show up. A reflection on Proper 17A: Jeremiah 15:15-21 and Matthew 16:21-28.

The question is whether that harm can be explained, whether it can be reckoned with, and whether a tradition capable of such damage is worth staying inside.

A cliff carved with a dozen gods, a temple to Caesar, and one dangerous question — this Sunday's readings ask where a life's real foundation actually sits.

Death is real. The body is real. And the God who made both has not abandoned either. The resurrection is the insistence that the last word has not been spoken yet