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Love is hard. So very hard. If you don’t think so, just look at what the Revised Common Lectionary does for this Sunday. Rather than tell the truth about love, love is lifted out of (...)

While the opportunities Scripture offers to speak directly of the beauty, power, and needs of the natural world are extremely frequent, especially in the Psalms, often the lectionary presents us with stories that contribute to (...)

Discussion on Revised Common Lectionary texts for Sixth Sunday of Easter (May 21, 2017): (Gospel) John 14:15-21; (1st Reading) Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:8-20; (2nd Reading) 1 Peter 3:13-22. Recorded at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn., (...)

Discussion on Revised Common Lectionary texts for Fifth Sunday of Easter (May 14, 2017): (Gospel) John 14:1-14; (1st Reading) Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16; (2nd Reading) 1 Peter 2:2-10. Recorded at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, (...)

I am often asked, as I was this past Sunday at a church gathering, what is the one easiest step a Christian can take to care for creation. It was a “bite your tongue” moment. (...)

“It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.” I have always been curious about this detail, but have never quite known what to do with it. I have also frequently been asked about the meaning (...)

Discussion on texts for Day of Pentecost (May 15, 2016): (Gospel) John 14:8-17, [25-27];(First Reading) Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; (Second Reading) Romans 8:14-17.

Discussion on texts for Sixth Sunday of Easter (May 1, 2016): (Gospel) John 14:23-29 {Alt. Gospel} John 5:1-9; {First Reading} Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; {Second Reading} Revelation 21:10, 22–22:5.

I recently received a copy of a new ecological hymn that included the line, “We are called to have dominion over all that you have made.” This pervasive understanding comes rather directly from the NRSV translation of (...)

I find it curious that John the Baptist took his identity from the Isaiah 40 prophecy: the voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord.” My problem is that Isaiah (...)