10/30/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
We tend to ask the wrong questions about the resurrection -- case in point, the inquiry of the Sadducees. Of course, their engagement with Jesus is to challenge …
10/23/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
“Today salvation has come to this house.” Mic drop.
But, of course, not everyone is happy when salvation shows up. Good news for some is not …
10/16/2016 9:14 PM
Karoline Lewis
“God, I thank you that I am not like other people. Really, thank you, God.”
Wow, does this passage ever convict! And if we are not found guilty …
10/9/2016 5:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
So, just how should we define justice?
While this story from Luke is most certainly a commending of our contending with God (especially paired with the …
10/2/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
See, return, praise, worship, give thanks, get up, and go.
What if we imagined, if only for this week, that this could be the rhythm of faith?
At the …
9/25/2016 7:52 PM
Karoline Lewis
One of the hardest things about being a teacher of preachers is that I don’t serve a church. I sometimes feel like I exist in a performative contradiction. …
9/18/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham,
Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham,
Rock-a-my soul in the bosom of Abraham,
Oh, rock-a-my soul.
You know …
9/11/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
A few years ago, I gave up on the idea of balance. Balance is a myth.1 It is simply not possible to keep the important things in your life in perfect balance …
9/4/2016 5:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
“Issues reach the pulpit before you do." This statement by my dear friend Rev. Michael Brown, senior Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in NYC, first …
8/28/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
What does the cross mean to you? You kind of have to figure that out before you can make sense of or preach on Jesus’ statement, “Whoever does …
8/21/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
My first reaction to the Gospel lesson this week was a movie memory: a scene from Silence of the Lambs, when Hannibal Lecter (the brilliant Anthony Hopkins) …
8/14/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
“Immediately, she stood up straight and began praising God.” I have a feeling that when this woman bent over for eighteen years was finally …
8/7/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
Family division. Sadly, it doesn’t take much these days to procure a pointed argument between those with whom we are supposed to be the closest. We …
7/31/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
We are not done yet.
We are moving my mom into a nursing home. We are getting closer, but the sorting and the sifting and the sadness persist.
And so, …
7/24/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
We moved my mom into a nursing home last week. If you are a regular reader of this column, you know that she has Parkinson’s. She also has been diagnosed …