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I don’t know why I'm finding the ending of Acts so anticlimactic. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading it through a contemplative lens, and...

Herod plays a strange role in Luke’s Gospel. Or one might say a mercurial role. He imprisons and beheads John the Baptist because he...

We have talked about how the Christian response to fear and to the loss of political and social power is present-mindedness, superrational hope, and...

“Consider the lilies of the field,” I told her as she sat in my office, agonizing about grad school. She was a college senior,...

Jesus upends the lives and thoughts of the Pharisees, and they respond with anger.  He sees that they’re angry, but instead of trying to...

Let’s pause for a moment and take stock of just how radical things are about to get.  Jesus is beginning to articulate the overthrow...

There are many reasons why we might find ourselves in the wilderness.  When my mother died, I spent a year in a wilderness of...