Eminently Practical

In Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, he gives some pretty plain teachings. Why do we act as if we’re excused from listening to them?

2025-02-23T10:00:03-06:00February 23, 2025|0 Comments

Everyday Prayer

Prayers for everyday occasions—like Rabbi Irwin Keller’s prayer for watching the news—help us to be recollected in God throughout the day.

2025-02-16T10:01:09-06:00February 16, 2025|0 Comments

What Love Is

Right in the middle of one of his apostolic smackdowns, Paul sings us a love song.

2025-02-02T09:10:13-06:00February 2, 2025|0 Comments

Who Can Detect Their Own Errors?

Psalm 19 teaches humility—the wisdom to know that we are all fallible, that we can’t always detect our own errors. Like respectfulness, truthfulness, and mercy, humility isn’t weak, as Bishop Budde reminded us last week. You can leave space for the possibility that you might be wrong, but still take a stand for the things you believe are right.

2025-01-26T10:14:58-06:00January 26, 2025|0 Comments

The Gulf of America

There’s a gap between Martin Luther King’s dream for America and the reality of America. No, not just a gap: more like a gulf.

2025-01-19T10:01:23-06:00January 19, 2025|0 Comments

Chaos and Logos

Are you afraid of 2025, as I confess I am, sometimes? The prolog to the Gospel of John has an antidote.

2025-01-05T09:50:17-06:00January 5, 2025|0 Comments
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