The Lie the Serpent Told

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

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

"Why does the Bible call God "Lord"? A look at the tetragrammaton, the Septuagint, and the Episcopal Church's inclusive-language options."