Any time something is causing a division between people instead of a connection between people, we should be very, very suspicious about the powers at work, because it is the life of God we kill when we condemn. How does God help us release others from condemnation?

(Part 2 of 2) I can be confident that if my interactions with another human being are coming from a place of disgust, then I am obeying a cultural story, not a divine story. How does God rescue us from our own judginess and re-orient us to the divine story of love?

(Part 1 of 2) By the end of this passage, not only is the woman’s child miraculously healed, but so are the people who witnessed it. How does Christ heal not only our bodies, but our thinking?

The opposite of helplessness isn’t power. It’s actually creativity. Imagination is the method by which things like justice and mercy are made manifest. How does God help us imagine new futures when everything about the present seems terrible?

Injustice will remain entrenched until Christians get serious about our discipleship. How does Jesus teach us to be people who love God and each other well?

What do I mean when I pray the Lord’s Prayer? A pastor once challenged me to sit with the Prayer and meditate, line by line, on what it meant to me personally. The result was unexpectedly poetic.