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En su relato de la crucifixión y resurrección, el evangelio de Juan nos presenta una versión de un relato muy antiguo de los cristianismos originarios sobre la humillación y vindicación de Jesús. Ya desde el (...)

Born out of a gut-wrenching anguish, Psalm 22 is the cry of one who knows what it is to be bullied by his enemies, rejected by his community, and abandoned by God. The threat for (...)

Preparing to preach on Good Friday is preparing to wander about in the heart of the mystery of God’s reconciling activity in Jesus Christ and (most importantly!) inviting your hearers and by extension the world (...)

The theology of baptism is given depth of meaning in the book of Revelation, especially in chapter 7:9 – 17 and in this chapter, the reader is drawn to the central message of being a (...)

The book of Acts begins by reminding its reader, Theophilus, of an earlier book — the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:1-4), placing the reader in the midst of an extended story with Jesus at the (...)

Juan 17 es la culminación de los “discursos de despedida” de Jesús a sus discípulos que comienzan en Juan 13 y anticipan la “glorificación” de Jesús, o sea, su muerte y resurrección (Juan 18-20). Todo (...)

The now well-known hymn “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” was performed for the first time on February 12, 1900, at the segregated Stanton Elementary School in Jacksonville, FL. James Weldon Johnson, principal of Stanton and (...)

The question of John the Baptist to Jesus is one of the most important questions of Advent and of Christian theology more broadly. “Are you the one who is come, or are we to wait (...)

As we saw two weeks ago with the reference to compassion as a counter-cultural “suffering-with,” Jesus consistently chooses the “path of downward mobility.” In fact, in Luke’s Gospel, it is precisely because Jesus was “suffering (...)

In last week’s story, Jesus’ identity was questioned. This week’s passage focuses on Jesus’ identity as well. The story of Jesus’ Transfiguration is one of only two instances in Luke’s Gospel in which the divine (...)