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Revelation is a letter to 7 churches made up of poor and marginalized folks trying to survive, resist, and refuse assimilation into the Roman empire. It is concerned with unmasking the powers of empire, alternative (...)

Depending on your congregation, preaching from Revelation may constitute an oddity, causing congregants to scratch their heads about where this might be going, or worse yet, the topic becomes a triggering event.1 Let’s look closer (...)

Six years ago I returned from a life-changing visit to Kisumu, Kenya (described in this column from 2016). I had been invited by the Rev. Tom Ochuka, then a pastor (now a bishop) in the (...)

These words seemed to them an idle tale … It was quite the crowd that burst in on the disciples who were hiding behind locked doors: Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the other women. We don’t (...)

This hymn raises questions that Christians have wrestled with for centuries: Who is this Jesus whom we call Messiah and Lord? How is he related to God, on the one hand, and to us as (...)

Psalm 126 packs amazing poignancy and power in the space of only six verses. It is the seventh of the Songs of Ascent, all of which are relatively brief and most of which, like Psalm (...)

As Jesus speaks to a crowd, some of those gathered seek Jesus’ opinion on current affairs. Jesus as a prophet places the local issue within a cosmic frame that yields a divine imperative for the (...)

Jesus has been heading to Jerusalem since Luke 9:51, and in Luke 13:31-35 the Pharisees urge him to get there even quicker. They claim that Herod desires (thelō) to kill him (verse 31). However, Herod (...)

As Christians begin Lent, Luke 4:1-13 reminds us of the premise and power of following the Spirit in the wilderness for a forty-day journey. An aspect of this passage that has always struck me is (...)

Franklin D. Roosevelt once famously asserted his firm belief that “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Those were words that the United States needed to hear in the wake of the attack on (...)