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• 7/27/2025: Revelation 1:4-8; accompanying text: John 8:13-20 • 8/3/2025: Revelation 4:1-11; accompanying text: John 17:1-5 • 8/10/2025: Revelation 5:1-13; accompanying text: John 1:29-31 • 8/17/2025: Revelation 7:9-17; accompanying text: John 14:1-4 • 8/24/2025: Revelation (...)

• 7/27/2025: Revelation 1:4-8; accompanying text: John 8:13-20 • 8/3/2025: Revelation 4:1-11; accompanying text: John 17:1-5 • 8/10/2025: Revelation 5:1-13; accompanying text: John 1:29-31 • 8/17/2025: Revelation 7:9-17; accompanying text: John 14:1-4 • 8/24/2025: Revelation (...)

“It’s the end of the world, as we know it.” Or at least it often feels that way when a congregation we serve has made a decision to close. What does one say at the (...)

There are a great many “issues” nestled in these few verses: unity/oneness and scattering, the power of language and the gift of hearing/understanding, divine and human boundaries, failure to follow God’s command, and even a (...)

The Taizé community has put to music words from St. Teresa of Ávila, offered here in English translation: Nothing can trouble, nothing can frighten. Those that seek God shall never go wanting. Nothing can trouble, (...)

“Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Revelation 3:22).  The above recurring words from Revelation 3 (verses 6, 13, and 22) are embedded in the clarion (...)

The gospel message is central to understanding the continuity between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, but its meaning was not always clear in antiquity. Mark had to introduce readers to who Jesus was (...)

Psalm 86 is classified by most scholars as a psalm of individual lament, in which an individual expresses the pain of his present condition and seeks relief from God.¹ However, most of the elements of (...)

In Romans 7:15-25, Paul concludes that both the law and the individual’s will, while not bad in themselves, cannot bring about the freedom humans need in order to want what is right and to do (...)

When I look at this week’s appointed lectionary texts, I have trouble seeing past all the rocks. The Acts text recounts the stoning of Stephen: rocks as (literal) weapons. Psalm 31 features the metaphor of (...)