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
A Canaanite woman refuses to take silence for an answer, and the house of God gets wider. Reflections on Proper 15A: Isaiah, the Psalm, and Matthew 15.
The question worth sitting with is the one underneath : What does it mean that love can be refused? That freedom is real enough to be finally used against itself?
Peter's little faith isn't failure — it's the only faith that got him out of the boat, and grace catches him mid-sink, well before he's earned any of it back
Can you take your own faith seriously while genuinely respecting the faith of someone who believes something different? Or do you need to choose between the two?
Jesus compared God's kingdom to a weed and a contaminant, not a stately tree. What that means for anyone who's felt too messy to belong in church, this Sunday.