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A “zealous” God. Isaiah 9:2-7 (1-6 in the Hebrew) paints a picture of God’s zealousness, which results in the zealousness of God’s people. We take our lead from the final sentence of this reading, “The (...)

On the surface, Proverbs 9:1-6 reads as positive instruction for those seeking to live an ethical life, one that leaves aside “naivety” (Hebrew peta’im) and is grounded instead in “understanding” or “insight” (binah; verse 6).  (...)

The 2020 film Kiss the Ground, narrated by Woody Harrelson, portrays “regenerative farming,” a relatively new practice in the U.S. and around the world, restoring spent land and sequestering carbon in the soil. In one (...)

As I write in February, awaiting spring, Easter, and Earth Day (April 22), outside it is 18 degrees, cloudy and dark. Snow and sleet cover the air, the ground, and the solar panels; the pond (...)

How are you, Working Preacher? When I have been asked that question lately, I’ve replied that I’m fine—but not fine like 2019. I’m fine like Olaf the snowman is fine when he walks alone through (...)

The connection between justice and care is often lost in contemporary Christian practice.1 We’ve gotten the memo on the importance of care, and today’s gospel lesson more than adequately underscores that message. When Christ returns (...)

Last Christmas my son, a school principal in Miami, announced that when the apocalypse came, he and his family would seek refuge in Indiana with us, where we have water, gardens, solar power, and relative (...)

Haddon Robinson is co-director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Gordon-Conwell Seminary.  He writes regularly for Our Daily Bread, a daily devotional, and has authored six books: “Psalm 23,” “Grief,” “Biblical Preaching,” “Biblical Sermons,” (...)

What if the center cannot hold, as William Butler Yeats feared in his famous poem, “The Second Coming”? Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide (...)

“One flock, one shepherd . . .” On the walk back from the now empty tomb and her encounter in the garden with the risen Christ, we can only imagine the jumble of thoughts, images, (...)