Joel Shuman

Seeing Jesus

Third Sunday of Easter, Year A Acts 2:14, 36-41 | Psalm 116 | 1 Peter 1:17-23 | Luke 24:13-35It ain’t...
April 15, 2026

Within Our Grasp

Third Sunday of Lent, Year A Exodus 17:1-7 | Psalm 95 | Romans 5:1-11 | John 4:5-42After this I looked,...
March 4, 2026

Prince of Peace

Second Sunday of Christmas, Year AJeremiah 31:7-14 | Psalm 147:12-20 | Ephesians 1:3-14 | John 1:(1-9) 10-18Art: “Tent City Nativity”...
December 30, 2025

Chaos, the Rhetoric of Hate, and the Way of Jesus

Proper 20 (25), Year CJeremiah 8:19-9:1 [Amos 8:4-7]Psalm 79:1-9 [Psalm 113]1 Timothy 2:1-7Luke 16:1-13“In our time, political speech and writing...
September 17, 2025

No Bowing To The Inevitable

Trinity Sunday, Year CProverbs 8:1-4, 22-31Psalm 8:1-9Romans 5:1-5John 16:12-15But again and again there comes a time in history when the...
June 11, 2025

Work well. Speak truthfully. Embody decency.

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Psalm 37:1-11, 39-401 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Luke 6:27-38"There's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of...
February 19, 2025

The Wages of Goodness and the Reign of God

Proper 24 BJob 38:1-7 Isaiah 53:4-12Mark 10:35-45Art by John August SwansonYou don’t need to venture very far from the illusory...
October 16, 2024

Holding On

Sixteenth Sunday after PentecostJeremiah 32:1-15Psalm 911 Timothy 6:1-16Luke 16:19-31Oh, you got to hold on, hold on You gotta hold on...
September 20, 2022

What are We Doing Here?

This reflection was originally shared on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, 20191 Kings 19:1-15 or Isaiah 65:1-9Psalms 42 & 43...
June 17, 2022

Reckoning

Christ the King Sunday (Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost) Daniel 7:9-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4-8 John 18:33-37 Love the quick profit,...
November 16, 2021