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I moved back to my home territory in 2015 after being away for forty years. Around the same time, I started writing a regular column for my hometown newspaper in which I address religion, politics, (...)

According to tradition, Jeremiah is “the weeping prophet.” It is an apt nickname for this figure whose preaching is always filled with emotion. In an oracle that appears two chapters before this passage, the prophet, (...)

Preaching from the book of Esther is not for the faint-hearted. The book offers some challenges to the preacher. In the Hebrew text of the book, God is never mentioned. Neither is prayer or worship. (...)

In Mark 9:38, John directs a comment towards Jesus on behalf of the disciples that is the epitome of myopia The words almost sound whiney, like a four-year old tattletale: “because he was not following (...)

Notes for a five-week preaching series on Job.1 These are suggested passages from the book of Job to be used for a sermon series. I’ve sketched a few ideas for each week, but you may (...)

One might wonder at the selection of this text set in conversation with that of Job and the Markan text on divorce and “the little children.” Though connections might be made through Psalm 8 (it (...)

Genesis is an origin story: a prosaic telling of how things came to be the way they are. Genesis is poetry in prose, a theological accounting of how things that were seen, known, and imagined (...)

Integrating life and liturgy has been a practice for Christian churches. There are few that aim to do it, and even fewer are able to achieve it. A divide separates those who think of the (...)

The lectionary has been running consecutively through Mark 9 and 10 the past four weeks, but it skips 10:32-34 just before today’s lesson. I suspect these verses are omitted because they repeat what Jesus had (...)

This account of the healing of Bartimaeus concludes a central section in the Gospel of Mark that began in 8:22 with the healing of another blind man and is followed in 11:1 by the entry (...)