Doug Lee

Resurrecting Imagination

Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A Acts 7:55-60 | Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 | 1 Peter 2:1-12 | John 14:1-14 How...
April 29, 2026

John the Baptizer: Icon of Advent Tension

Advent 3 Year AIsaiah 35:1-10 | Psalm 146: 5-10 | James 5:7-10 | Matthew 11:2-11John the Baptizer is hard to...
December 8, 2025

The Wonder of Christ’s Kingship

Proper 29Christ the King Sunday, Year CJeremiah 23:1-6 | Psalm 46 | Colossians 1:11-20 | Luke 23:33-43Alarmed by the rise...
November 18, 2025

Not Radical Enough

Proper 17BSept 1 2024Mark 7:1-23In an era of unbridled political turmoil and unhealed ecclesial division, can a public fight ever...
August 28, 2024

Absence and Embrace

Ascension of the LordActs 1:15-17, 21-26John 17:6-19As a member of the sandwich generation, I teeter between attending to an aging...
May 8, 2024

Peak Jesus

Transfiguration Sunday2 Kings 2:1-122 Corinthians 4:3-6Mark 9:2-9Epiphanytide ends with a bang. Throughout this season, the glory of Christ shines. From the...
February 5, 2024

Whose Work? Which Economy?

Seventeenth Sunday after PentecostExodus 16:2-15 or Jonah 3:10-4:11Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 or Psalm 145:1-8Philippians 1:21-30Matthew 20:1-16Can every part of our lives...
September 20, 2023

The Patron Saint of the Tongue-Tied

Psalm 118:1-29 Acts 4:1-20 Healing the lame (last week’s text from Acts 3) may lie far beyond our abilities. But...
April 24, 2012

Power Politics and the Politics of Weakness

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-11, 20c 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 In this election year, the headlong...
February 1, 2012

The Living Gospel

Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 Advent has a powerful way of clarifying...
December 1, 2011