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1st Sunday of Advent, Year A
The Son of Man Is Coming
November 28, 2010
End Times
November 26, 2013
Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Vision
November 23, 2016
Walking in the Light of the Lord
November 27, 2019
Prepping for Advent - Advent 1, Year A
November 22, 2022
1st Sunday of Advent, Year B
Come, Lord Jesus
November 27, 2008
From Where Does Our Help Come?
November 23, 2011
Year B links
November 24, 2014
Learning to Squint
November 26, 2014
Wait for the Lord
November 29, 2017
Of Sheep and Tender Shoots
November 25, 2020
What is the Good News?
November 28, 2023
Little Ache by Li-Young Lee - Poem for the First Sunday in Advent, Year B
November 28, 2023
1st Sunday of Advent, Year C
Spring Will Come Before We Know It
November 25, 2009
Preparing for Disaster
November 28, 2012
Living Out of Control
November 24, 2015
Recognizing the Signs
November 29, 2018
Jesus is Coming!
November 26, 2021
Advent is Practice against Despair
November 26, 2024
2nd Sunday of Advent, Year A
The Politics of Hope: American and Apocalyptic
December 1, 2010
Again!
December 4, 2013
Disowning the Right Things
November 30, 2016
Prepare the Way of the Lord
December 4, 2019
Apologies, by Karenne Wood - Poem for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year A
November 29, 2022
2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B
The End is our Beginning
December 3, 2008
The Living Gospel
December 1, 2011
Take Comfort
December 4, 2014
Time and Mortality
December 5, 2017
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
December 2, 2020
Ecology of Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai - Poem for the Second Sunday in Advent, Year B
December 6, 2023
2nd Sunday of Advent, Year C
Who Bears the Weight of Empire?
December 4, 2009
Outside the Inn-siders
December 5, 2012
Make Peace
December 1, 2015
Watching and Waiting for Peace
December 5, 2018
Posts for the Second Sunday of Advent
December 2, 2021
Time and Place
December 3, 2024
3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A
Advent Outdoors
December 9, 2010
What Are You Waiting For?
December 11, 2013
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Patience, Hard Thing! – Lectionary Poem for Advent 3A
December 11, 2019
Birth at Mount Gilboa
December 11, 2019
A Tree and its Fruit
December 10, 2022
We Belong Where We Are
December 8, 2025
While It Is Still Dark
December 8, 2025
John the Baptizer: Icon of Advent Tension
December 8, 2025
3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B
Camel Hair and the Christ Child
December 8, 2008
The Church as Highway Department
December 6, 2011
Like Those Who Dream
December 12, 2014
Bearers of Good News
December 13, 2017
Reflections for the Third Sunday of Advent
December 9, 2020
The Pointing Church
December 11, 2023
Country Church by Liberty Hyde Bailey - Poem for the Third Sunday in Advent, Year B
December 11, 2023
3rd Sunday of Advent, Year C
I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy
December 9, 2009
Season of Anxiety
December 8, 2015
Receiving the Gift of Christ
December 11, 2018
Receiving the Gift of Christ
December 11, 2018
Good News?
December 6, 2021
Rejoice!
December 9, 2024
4th Sunday of Advent, Year A
A Small Part in a Great Story
December 17, 2010
A Very Messy Christmas
December 18, 2013
Our Pious Disbelief in “God-With-Us”
December 13, 2016
Henry Vaughan – Christ’s Nativity – Lectionary Poem for Advent 4A
December 19, 2019
God’s Not Finished
December 16, 2025
4th Sunday of Advent, Year B
Revolution Now!
December 16, 2008
And it was sufficient
December 13, 2011
What Sort of Greeting?
December 19, 2014
Cooperating with the God Who Acts
December 19, 2017
Birthing a Revolution
December 15, 2020
Singing Her Song
December 19, 2023
4th Sunday of Advent, Year C
A Political Pregnancy (and the Beatles)
December 15, 2009
As Good As Done
December 16, 2009
A Multitude of Ruptures
December 19, 2012
A Multitude of Ruptures
December 18, 2015
Mary's Topsy-Turvy Vision
December 19, 2018
God's Magnificent Love
December 16, 2021
God’s Magnificent Love
December 18, 2024
Christmas Day, Year A
Marvelous Things
December 20, 2016
A Great Light
December 22, 2022
Christmas Day, Year B
The Logic of the Incarnation
December 20, 2011
1st Sunday of Christmas, Year A
Herod Rules
December 23, 2010
God Made Visible
December 31, 2010
Body Matters
January 1, 2014
There’s a New <del>Kid /</del> King In Town
December 28, 2016
Inhabiting a Politics of Faithfulness
December 27, 2019
Nine Miles from Jerusalem
December 31, 2019
Two Kingdoms, Two Kings
December 28, 2022
I Have A Dream
December 22, 2025
Prince of Peace
December 30, 2025
1st Sunday of Christmas, Year B
Bit Parts
December 25, 2008
Wild Grace Abounding
January 2, 2009
To ponder in our hearts
December 28, 2011
Looking for the Redemption of Jerusalem
December 23, 2014
Nativity Politics
December 31, 2014
The Next Step in the Churches
December 28, 2017
Christmas Praise in a Mutilated World
December 22, 2020
Something New
December 28, 2020
Revisiting Redemption
December 27, 2023
1st Sunday of Christmas, Year C
God in Particular
December 23, 2009
The Whole Package
December 31, 2009
Holy Families?
December 26, 2012
Holy Family Values
December 22, 2015
The Power of Fear
December 29, 2015
Seeking God
December 26, 2018
The Redemption of Childhood
December 22, 2021
A God Who Adopts
January 1, 2025
Empires and Wombs
January 1, 2025
Baptism of the Lord (1st Sunday after Epiphany), Year A
Voice lessons
January 6, 2011
The Rupture of Impossibility
January 9, 2014
A Larger Story
January 4, 2017
Links for the First Sunday after Epiphany/Baptism of the Lord
January 6, 2020
One Lord, One Baptism
January 5, 2023
Jesus’ Baptism and Our Own
January 7, 2026
Baptism of the Lord (1st Sunday after Epiphany), Year B
Amahl and the Night Visitors
January 5, 2009
Remember Your Baptism and Be Thankful
January 6, 2009
Out in the Wilderness
January 3, 2012
Assumed and Healed
January 7, 2015
Learning to Forage
January 3, 2018
Where Else?
January 5, 2021
Baptism of the Lord (1st Sunday after Epiphany), Year C
God, in Christ, has Earned it For Us
January 8, 2010
Previous Year C links
December 31, 2012
Darkness and Light, and My Son’s Need to Know Where the Bad People Go
January 2, 2013
The Kingdom Unleashed on the World
January 6, 2016
Nine Miles from Bethlehem
January 3, 2019
Lectionary Poem for the First Sunday After Epiphany
January 5, 2022
God's Immersion into the Life of the World
January 6, 2022
The Revolution to Change the World!
January 9, 2025
2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Truth Dazzles Gradually
January 12, 2011
Seek and you shall...
January 15, 2014
I Pledge Allegiance
January 10, 2017
Mere Prayer
January 17, 2020
Posts for the Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 11, 2023
What Are You Looking For?
January 14, 2026
2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Year B
Heaven and Earth
January 13, 2009
The Goon Priest
January 11, 2012
In the Dark
January 14, 2015
Desert Silence
January 9, 2018
An Identity Not My Own
January 11, 2021
Following the Beloved
January 11, 2024
Awakening to the Hard Tasks
January 11, 2024
2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
The Joy of Not Being in Charge
January 12, 2010
Year C collected
January 9, 2013
Risky Waters
January 10, 2013
Not Yet at the Wedding Banquet
January 12, 2016
Who and Whose
January 8, 2019
Denise Levertov - A Gift - Poem for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
January 12, 2022
Lectionary Reflections for the Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 14, 2022
The Flowing Love of our Creator
January 14, 2025
3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Repent: The Kingdom Is Near
January 20, 2011
Whose You Are
January 21, 2014
Christ's Mind in Us
January 20, 2017
Allegiance or Admiration?
January 21, 2020
Posts for the Third Sunday after Epiphany
January 19, 2023
The Kingdom is the Gospel
January 22, 2026
3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year B
Epiphany 3B
January 20, 2009
The Far End of the Net
January 17, 2012
Only
January 20, 2015
Yes and No
January 16, 2018
Links for the Third Sunday after Epiphany
January 22, 2021
2024: Bearing Witness to Grief: Climate Collapse, Resistance, and Grounded Hope
January 15, 2024
Planting Poison Ivy
January 17, 2024
3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
The Word Read
January 19, 2010
Blessing and the Christian Life
January 16, 2013
Transformative Worship
January 19, 2016
Marriage for All
January 15, 2019
Hearing the Word
January 18, 2022
Jane Hirshfield - A Hand - Poem for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
January 19, 2022
Turning The Dial
January 22, 2025
4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
The Risks of Baby Dedication
January 29, 2014
The Day the Circus Left Town
January 26, 2017
Reflections for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany/Presentation of the Lord
January 28, 2020
God’s Folly, by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A
January 26, 2023
4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year B
By Whose Authority?
January 28, 2009
The Holy One of God
January 25, 2012
What is Power For?
January 29, 2015
Authority and the Madness of Love
January 23, 2018
Certified Prophet
January 26, 2021
First Things First
January 23, 2024
4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
Love and Virtue
January 25, 2010
A Nose Hair in the Body of Christ
January 21, 2013
The Unwelcome Word
January 28, 2016
Responding to the Word
January 23, 2019
Tracy K. Smith-"Refuge"-A Poem for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
January 25, 2022
Reflections for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
January 27, 2022
Thanking God for Conflict: Lessons from Oscar Romero on Faithfulness in a Polarized Society
January 27, 2022
When Truth Comes Close to Home
January 28, 2025
5th Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Still the Crucified
February 3, 2011
"Luminous Darkness"
February 5, 2014
More Righteous than the Scribes and Pharisees
January 31, 2017
Fasting From Privilege: Thoughts and Prayers are Not Enough
February 5, 2020
Fasting on Tunis by Leila Chatti - Poem for the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A
January 31, 2023
Who We Are
January 31, 2023
Revolution of Values
February 3, 2026
Bitterness Subsides
February 3, 2026
5th Sunday after Epiphany, Year B
Is Your World Shaped By the Gospel?
February 4, 2009
Power Politics and the Politics of Weakness
February 1, 2012
Contemplatives in Action
February 3, 2015
No Ground for Boasting
January 31, 2018
It is Still Very Dark
February 3, 2021
Wait for the Lord
February 3, 2024
5th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
On Becoming a Seraph
February 2, 2010
Rejoice in the Truth
January 31, 2013
The Witness of the Vulnerable
January 31, 2019
Natalie Diaz - Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation - Poem for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
February 2, 2022
Catching People
February 3, 2025
6th Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Reality Hunger
February 10, 2011
Why Grace Doesn't Fit on a Bumpersticker
February 15, 2014
Belonging to Christ
February 9, 2017
Stalemate
February 15, 2020
Celebration by Mari Evans - Poem for the Sixth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A
February 10, 2023
Bound to One Another
February 11, 2023
6th Sunday after Epiphany, Year B
I Do Choose…
February 11, 2009
Wade in the Water
February 8, 2012
6th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
The Case for Emptiness
February 5, 2019
Blessings and Curses
February 8, 2022
Christina Rossetti - A Better Resurrection - Poem for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
February 8, 2022
Planted and Rooted
February 13, 2025
7th Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Realist of Grace
February 16, 2011
Bonds Unbroken
February 19, 2014
Given Lives in a Given World
February 14, 2017
7th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
Feeling the Beatitudes
February 15, 2019
Joy Harjo - This Morning I Pray for my Enemies -Poem for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
February 16, 2022
Work well. Speak truthfully. Embody decency.
February 19, 2025
8th Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
The Economics of Anxiety
February 24, 2011
8th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
Money isn't Real
February 19, 2019
Transfiguration Sunday, Year A
Valley Girls (and Guys)
March 4, 2011
Doing Well to Remember, Remembering to Do Well
February 26, 2014
As We Watch
February 23, 2017
Posts for Transfiguration Sunday
February 20, 2020
Up the Mountain by Patty Griffin - Poem for Transfiguration Sunday, Year A
February 14, 2023
A Light for the Way
February 11, 2026
Transfiguration Sunday, Year B
Light for the Journey
February 18, 2009
Plastic Minds and Magic Eyes
February 14, 2012
Transfigured in Him
February 11, 2015
Developing the Negatives
February 7, 2018
Transfiguration
February 9, 2021
Peak Jesus
February 5, 2024
Transfiguration Sunday, Year C
Unrealistic Stories and Beginning…Again
February 10, 2010
Uncover Your Face
February 7, 2013
It's About Jesus
February 3, 2016
Behold the Glory of God
February 28, 2019
Malcolm Guite - Transfiguration -Poem for Transfiguration Sunday, Year C
February 22, 2022
Renouncing the Veil
February 22, 2022
Will You Listen?
February 25, 2025
1st Sunday in Lent, Year A
God Abstracted
March 8, 2011
Asking the Hard Questions
March 5, 2014
Reality Therapy
March 1, 2017
Confession, Resistance, and Restoration
February 27, 2020
Silence and Superpowers
February 21, 2023
For Someone Who Did You Wrong by John O’Donohue - Poem for the First Sunday in Lent, Year A
February 23, 2023
Our Place in the Wilderness
February 17, 2026
1st Sunday in Lent, Year B
Psalms for the Journey
February 26, 2009
Dead in the Water
February 23, 2012
Descent Into Life
February 17, 2015
Links for the First Sunday of Lent
February 15, 2018
In the Wilderness
February 18, 2021
God’s Beloved
February 14, 2024
1st Sunday in Lent, Year C
How Well Do We Let Scripture Claim Us?
February 15, 2010
Saying "Yes" and Saying "No"
February 13, 2013
Identity Politics
February 10, 2016
Led by the Spirit
March 6, 2019
Entering the Wilderness
March 3, 2022
Rainer Maria Rilke - I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all -Poem for the First Sunday in Lent, Year C
March 3, 2022
Our Story As Resistance
March 4, 2025
2025: Hope Does Not Disappoint: Wrestling with God in a Groaning Creation
March 6, 2025
Year C Lent Collection
March 6, 2025
2nd Sunday in Lent, Year A
Being Born From Above
March 15, 2011
The Womb of the Church
March 11, 2014
Securing Our Place
March 8, 2017
Imagining God's Reign
March 3, 2020
Nicodemus by Howard Nemerov - Poem for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year A
February 28, 2023
2026: Sustaining Witness: Faithful Resistance in Troubled Times
February 23, 2026
Born From Above and Resembling the Source
February 25, 2026
2nd Sunday in Lent, Year B
Closer to the Brink
March 2, 2009
Following Jesus One Step at a Time
February 29, 2012
Turning the Soil
February 24, 2015
Human Things and Divine Things
February 22, 2018
On Being Mishandled, Misunderstood, Misapprehended
February 26, 2021
On the Discipline of Giving Up Winning
February 21, 2024
2nd Sunday in Lent, Year C
Enduring Desire
February 24, 2010
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
February 16, 2016
Reflections for the Second Sunday of Lent
March 13, 2019
Reflections for the Second Sunday of Lent
March 9, 2022
Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Resolve - Poem for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year C
March 9, 2022
Being a Friend of the Cross
March 11, 2025
3rd Sunday in Lent, Year A
Engaging Jesus
March 22, 2011
Break in the Cup
March 20, 2014
Desert Transformations
March 14, 2017
Watersheds and Salvation
March 11, 2020
From Darkness into Light
March 10, 2023
Moses by Madeleine L’Engle - Poem for the Third Sunday in Lent, Year A
March 10, 2023
Within Our Grasp
March 4, 2026
3rd Sunday in Lent, Year B
Asleep at the Wheel
March 10, 2009
Anger in Church
March 7, 2012
Words
March 4, 2015
Draining the Swamp?
March 1, 2018
The Ecology of God's Reign
March 3, 2021
The Temple of His Body
February 26, 2024
3rd Sunday in Lent, Year C
Sooner or Later
March 5, 2010
A Cheer for an Invisible Parade
March 1, 2013
Danger: Holy Ground
February 25, 2016
Open to the Work of the Gardener
March 19, 2019
Thirst is Everything
March 16, 2022
Lois Red Elk- All Thirst Quenched - Poem for the Third Sunday in Lent, Year C
March 17, 2022
Your Thoughts Are Not My Thoughts
March 17, 2025
4th Sunday in Lent, Year A
Internalizing what Externals Mean
March 31, 2011
An Astonishing Thing!
March 24, 2017
Posts for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 17, 2020
Thoughts for this present age.
March 20, 2020
Plenary Manuscripts
March 17, 2023
Though I Was Blind, Now I See
March 11, 2026
4th Sunday in Lent, Year B
For God So Loved the World
March 19, 2009
Naked Intent
March 14, 2012
Loving the World
March 11, 2015
Posts for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 8, 2018
Reminder and Remedy
March 10, 2021
4th Sunday in Lent, Year C
Celebrate!
March 9, 2010
Difficult Freedom
March 6, 2013
Becoming Home
March 2, 2016
Reflections for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 30, 2019
Allison Funk- The Prodigal’s Mother Speaks to God - Poem for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year C
March 22, 2022
Healing Through Solidarity
March 22, 2022
A Ministry of Reconciliation
March 26, 2025
5th Sunday in Lent, Year A
Snorting at Death
April 7, 2011
God and Graves
April 2, 2014
Lent 5
March 31, 2017
Second Innocence
March 24, 2020
George Herbert-"Death"
March 24, 2020
2023: Peacebuilding: Practicing the Peace the World Cannot Give
March 20, 2023
The Hinge by Cynthia Cruz - Poem for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A
March 21, 2023
Solidarity and the Soil of the New Creation - Lent 5, Year A
March 21, 2023
The Poetry of Holy Week and Easter
March 23, 2023
Resurrection and Life
March 19, 2026
5th Sunday in Lent, Year B
Flunking Lent
March 23, 2009
The Deep Hope of Easter
March 22, 2012
It Can't Come Soon Enough
March 18, 2015
The Time Has Come
March 14, 2018
The Time Has Come
March 16, 2021
The Time is Now
March 11, 2024
5th Sunday in Lent, Year C
"The regime...was just demolished...by...tears."
March 15, 2013
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
March 8, 2016
Six Days Before the Passover
April 2, 2019
Six Days Before the Passover
April 2, 2019
Linda Pastan- The Death of the Self - Poem for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C
March 30, 2022
Emptiness and Abundance
March 30, 2022
The Currency of Hope
April 2, 2025
Palm Sunday (6th Sunday in Lent), Year A
The Way Down
April 12, 2011
The Walking Dead and Waking Saints
April 10, 2014
A Fickle Popularity
April 5, 2017
A Holy Week Like No Other
March 31, 2020
Kenosis by Scott Cairns - Poem for Palm Sunday, Year A
March 29, 2023
In Our Hearts the Piercing Sword
March 30, 2023
The Hearts That Shift
March 28, 2026
Palm Sunday (6th Sunday in Lent), Year B
Spoilin’ for a Fight
April 2, 2009
A Token Performance
March 28, 2012
Becoming Human
March 25, 2015
Hosanna! Blessed is the One Who Comes in the Name of the Lord!
March 21, 2018
Making a Spectacle of Ourselves
March 22, 2021
Making a Spectacle of Ourselves
March 22, 2021
We Kiss the Cross
March 26, 2021
Palm Sunday (6th Sunday in Lent), Year C
Insurrection Sunday
March 26, 2010
Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!
March 21, 2013
The Death of Jesus
March 15, 2016
Palms, Permaculture, and the Passion
April 9, 2019
Reflections for Palm Sunday
April 6, 2022
Malcolm Guite - Palm Sunday - Poem for the Sixth Sunday in Lent, Year C
April 6, 2022
Staging, Scripting, and Performing an Entrance
April 7, 2025
Easter Sunday, Year A
Why Do You Weep?
April 22, 2011
The Truth on the Other Side of the Resurrection
April 12, 2017
A New Story
April 8, 2020
The Best Story
April 6, 2023
Easter Pantoum by John Terpstra - Poem for Easter Sunday, Year A
April 6, 2023
Gathering 2023 - Plenary speaker info.
April 7, 2023
True Greatness
March 31, 2026
Easter Sunday, Year B
World Out of Balance
April 7, 2009
Risen Indeed
April 4, 2012
Death Defeated
April 1, 2015
Easter Bewilderment
March 27, 2018
Courageous Witness
March 30, 2021
Endings and Beginnings
March 28, 2024
Easter Sunday, Year C
Grounded Hope
April 2, 2010
Rejoice! Our Work Has Just Begun!
March 27, 2013
Resurrection and the Way
March 22, 2016
He is Risen, Indeed!
April 16, 2019
Margaret Walker - For My People - Poem for Easter Sunday, Year C
April 12, 2022
In the Garden
April 14, 2022
In the Garden of the Resurrection
April 14, 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter, Year A
Seeing the Lord
April 26, 2011
Shame, Scars, and Resurrection Hope
April 26, 2014
Bodily Presence
April 20, 2017
The Witness of Scars
April 14, 2020
Reflections for the Second Sunday of Easter
April 12, 2023
Resurrection Peace
April 7, 2026
2nd Sunday of Easter, Year B
"My Lord and My God"
April 12, 2012
Easter People
April 7, 2015
From Confusion to Conspiracy
April 4, 2018
Reach
April 7, 2021
Patience Toward All That is Unsolved
April 3, 2024
2nd Sunday of Easter, Year C
Speaking Out
April 10, 2010
Belief, Bodies, and Freedom
March 30, 2016
The Art of Discernment
April 24, 2019
The Art of Discernment
April 24, 2019
Behind Locked Doors
April 21, 2022
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry - Poem for the Second Sunday of Easter, Year C
April 21, 2022
The Heavy Lifting God
April 21, 2025
3rd Sunday of Easter, Year A
What’s goin’ on?
May 4, 2011
A Same Kind of Different
May 1, 2014
A Chain of Resurrections
April 28, 2017
Two Versions of the Resurrection
April 22, 2020
Gathering Preachers and Worship Leaders
April 20, 2023
Song to the Holy Spirit by James K. Baxter - Poem for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year A
April 21, 2023
Reflections for the Third Sunday of Easter
April 21, 2023
Seeing Jesus
April 15, 2026
3rd Sunday of Easter, Year B
Resurrection and Torture
April 21, 2009
Taste and See
April 20, 2012
Creatures Who Eat
April 15, 2015
Fear and Trembling
April 10, 2018
Mochas, Marks, and Megalithic Dwellings
April 16, 2021
An Invitation to Know Christ
April 12, 2024
3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C
Struck Blind on the Damascus Road
April 16, 2010
Do You Love Me?
April 11, 2013
When the Wars Are Done
April 8, 2016
Wedding Poem by Ross Gay - Poem for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year C
April 26, 2022
Breakfast with Jesus
April 26, 2022
Close Your Eyes. Listen. And Follow.
April 30, 2025
4th Sunday of Easter, Year A
Followers
May 10, 2011
Coming In, Going Out
May 7, 2014
Hope for the World
May 4, 2017
Essential Work
April 27, 2020
Called by Name
April 27, 2023
4th Sunday of Easter, Year B
The Good Shepherd
May 2, 2009
The Patron Saint of the Tongue-Tied
April 24, 2012
No Weapon But Grace
April 20, 2015
Finding Our Voice
April 18, 2018
Living Stones
April 21, 2021
Risky Business
April 20, 2024
4th Sunday of Easter, Year C
In Unity We Lift Our Song
April 22, 2010
Believing and Proclaiming
April 16, 2013
Learning to be Sheep
April 13, 2016
Desperate and Joyful
May 7, 2019
To Prisoners by Gwendolyn Brooks - Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C
May 3, 2022
Learning to be Sheep
May 4, 2022
Tabitha’s Clothing
May 7, 2025
5th Sunday of Easter, Year A
Preparing for Departure
May 19, 2011
Trusting the Way
May 14, 2014
Look, I See the Heavens Opened
May 11, 2017
Communities in Transition
May 7, 2020
Stephen to Lazarus by C.S. Lewis - Poem for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A
May 4, 2023
Lectionary Reflections for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 4, 2023
5th Sunday of Easter, Year B
Pruning Time
May 7, 2009
Believe It or Not
May 3, 2012
Abiding Fruit
April 29, 2015
Driving Force
April 25, 2018
Useless Titles
April 28, 2021
Useless Titles
April 28, 2021
5th Sunday of Easter, Year C
Apocalypse of Love
April 29, 2010
Love = Obedience
April 21, 2016
Defiant Requiem
May 16, 2019
Defiant Requiem
May 16, 2019
The Pure in Heart Shall See God by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Poem for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C
May 11, 2022
Partners in Creation’s Chorus
May 12, 2022
A New Story
May 15, 2025
6th Sunday of Easter, Year A
The Close-at-Hand God
May 25, 2011
A Glory that Breathes Life
May 23, 2014
Come and Look
May 17, 2017
Reflections for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 14, 2020
6th Sunday of Easter, Year B
Show Us the Way
May 13, 2009
Show Us the Way
May 10, 2012
What Is Love?
May 6, 2015
Posts for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 3, 2018
Loving with Feet and Fungi
May 4, 2021
God’s Friends
May 1, 2024
6th Sunday of Easter, Year C
Courage to be Whole
May 5, 2010
Our Place Redeemed
April 29, 2013
Revolutionary Relationships
May 22, 2019
The Ambiguous Teachings of the Holy Spirit
May 19, 2022
Remembering God’s Future
May 21, 2025
7th Sunday of Easter, Year A
Gospel Sequel
May 31, 2011
Passages
May 30, 2014
Shown, Not Told
May 23, 2017
Distance Learning
May 20, 2020
The Parable of Perfect Silence by Christian Wiman - Poem for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A
May 16, 2023
7th Sunday of Easter, Year B
Ascension Politics
May 19, 2009
Two Christianities
May 13, 2015
A Post for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 12, 2021
Absence and Embrace
May 8, 2024
7th Sunday of Easter, Year C
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 12, 2010
Ascension Sunday
May 12, 2010
Ascension and Embrace
May 9, 2013
Improvisational Gospel
May 3, 2016
Worshiping the Ascended King
May 30, 2019
That They May All Be One
May 25, 2022
That The World May Believe That You Have Sent Me
May 29, 2025
Day of Pentecost, Year A
A Quieter Pentecost
June 6, 2011
A Quieter Pentecost
June 6, 2014
The Good Work of the New Humanity
May 31, 2017
Air Hunger
May 26, 2020
The Prayer in which We Share
May 22, 2023
Thirst by Mary Oliver - Poem for Pentecost Sunday, Year A
May 24, 2023
Reflections for Pentecost Sunday
May 24, 2023
Day of Pentecost, Year B
Apokatastasis and the Birthday of the Church
May 27, 2009
Assembling in the Spirit
May 23, 2012
The Advocacy of the Spirit
May 19, 2015
Not As You Suppose
May 14, 2018
Breathing the Spirit
May 19, 2021
The Wild and Generous Spirit
May 15, 2024
Day of Pentecost, Year C
Where in the World?
May 16, 2013
What Wishes Pentecost to Be?
May 12, 2016
Amazed
June 5, 2019
Amazed
June 2, 2022
Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way
June 2, 2025
Trinity Sunday (1st Sunday after Pentecost), Year A
Family Ties
June 14, 2011
Life Together
June 10, 2014
With Us to the End of the Age
June 6, 2017
Past Gatherings
June 8, 2017
Talking About God
June 4, 2020
Shout Joy! By Madeleine L’Engle - Poem for Trinity Sunday, Year A
June 1, 2023
Reflections for Trinity Sunday
June 2, 2023
Trinity Sunday (1st Sunday after Pentecost), Year B
The Trinity and THE SHACK
June 1, 2009
The Way the World Works?
May 29, 2012
The Economy of God's Redemption
May 27, 2015
Polyphony of Glory
May 25, 2018
A Meditation on Mystery
May 22, 2024
Trinity Sunday (1st Sunday after Pentecost), Year C
Trinity Sunday
May 28, 2010
Overcoming Epistemology
May 23, 2013
Trinity Sunday
May 20, 2016
To Build a Fire
June 12, 2019
I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson - Poem for the First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
June 7, 2022
Squaring the Circle
June 8, 2022
No Bowing To The Inevitable
June 11, 2025
2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Here I Am
June 20, 2011
Hating the Godfather
June 19, 2014
Mission Trips
June 15, 2017
An Absurd Hope
June 11, 2020
George Herbert-Lectionary Poem for the Second Sunday After Pentecost
June 11, 2020
The Story of Abraham By Alicia Ostriker - Poem for Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
June 8, 2023
2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Just a Kid. Just a Seed. Just a Church.
June 11, 2009
And So We Speak
June 8, 2012
Rejecting the God Who Is
June 3, 2015
Taking Scripture Seriously
May 31, 2018
The Humility of God
June 2, 2021
2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
All Things Shining
June 2, 2010
What Are We Doing Here?
June 19, 2019
Caged Bird by Maya Angelou - Poem for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
June 16, 2022
What are We Doing Here?
June 17, 2022
Swineherds
June 18, 2025
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
(Mis)Remembered Words
June 27, 2011
"Oh, Jesus Christ, Is It You Again?"
June 25, 2014
Do Not Be Afraid
June 21, 2017
Thoughts on the Third Sunday after Pentecost
June 18, 2020
Grace By Joy Harjo - Poem for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
June 14, 2023
A Psalm-Shaped Prayer
June 14, 2023
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Not By Sight
June 19, 2009
Eyes to See
June 13, 2012
Large Things in Small Parishes
June 10, 2015
Divided Houses and the God Who is King
June 6, 2018
Hidden, Humble, and Transformative
June 8, 2021
God’s Faithfulness
June 5, 2024
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Wrath and Mercy, Law and Grace
June 8, 2010
The Hope of Widows
June 8, 2013
A Morsel From Your Hand
June 1, 2016
Freedom Sunday
June 27, 2019
Refuge by Sara Teasdale - Poem for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
June 21, 2022
Security and the Risk of Faith
June 21, 2022
Obedience For Everyday Prophets
June 24, 2025
4th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Jacob, Despite Jacob
July 7, 2011
(Mis)Remembered Words
July 4, 2014
The Walking Dead
June 29, 2017
Desires of the Heart
June 25, 2020
Lectionary Reflections for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
June 22, 2023
4th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
The Hemorrhaging Woman
June 24, 2009
Preaching the Terrors (and Wonders)
June 21, 2012
Storm of the Spirit
June 17, 2015
A New Creation
June 13, 2018
Posts for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
June 16, 2021
Growing Into Mystery
June 13, 2024
4th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Zealous for the Lord
June 16, 2010
More Than a Prophet
June 12, 2013
What We Owe
June 9, 2016
Bringing the Kingdom Near
July 2, 2019
Bringing the Kingdom Near
June 30, 2022
“The Kingdom of God Has Come Near” Yeah, Say that!
July 3, 2025
5th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Life Among the Weeds
July 13, 2011
Wasteful Miracles
July 10, 2014
Getting Some Real Rest
July 3, 2017
The Yoke of Injustice
July 2, 2020
The Walking Dead
June 26, 2023
won’t you celebrate with me By Lucille Clifton - Poem for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
June 26, 2023
5th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Neither the Best Nor the Brightest
July 1, 2009
The Encounter More Than the Cure
June 26, 2012
Classic posts
June 23, 2015
A Complex Mess
June 20, 2018
Mourning and Joy
June 22, 2021
Praying with Your Imagination
June 17, 2024
5th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Freedom and Obedience
June 24, 2010
Declare How Much God has Done for You
June 20, 2013
Pain and Hope
June 14, 2016
The One Who Showed Mercy
July 10, 2019
2019: The Church as Politics
July 11, 2019
Poem by Lucy Ives - Poem for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
July 5, 2022
Nations and Kingdoms
July 6, 2022
2022: The Little Way: Practicing Christ’s Love for the Life of the World
July 7, 2022
6th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Mustard Seeds and Evangelism
July 20, 2011
Something to Do
July 16, 2014
The Wisdom to Survive
July 12, 2017
Reflections for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
July 9, 2020
Let the Children Be Free
July 3, 2023
6th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Amazing Jesus
July 4, 2012
The World We've Made
July 1, 2015
The Dreaded Stewardship Sermon
June 26, 2018
Be Made Well
June 27, 2024
6th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Three Funerals and a Wedding
June 30, 2010
Stay Close
June 26, 2013
Found in Translation
June 23, 2016
Answering Tyrants and Their Tweets
July 17, 2019
Learning to Pause
July 12, 2022
The Victory by Thomas Merton - Poem for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
July 13, 2022
Reimagined in the Image of the Invisible God
July 16, 2025
7th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
The More You Get, the More You Have
July 26, 2011
The Greatest of All Shrubs
July 23, 2014
The Weeds in Our Hearts
July 19, 2017
Waiting With Eager Longing
July 13, 2020
Christ Has No Body By Teresa of Avila - Poem for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
July 13, 2023
7th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Paving Stones on the Road to Hell
July 16, 2009
Crash Course
July 16, 2009
The Banquets of Two Kingdoms
July 11, 2012
Dancing Lessons
July 8, 2015
God's Hometown
July 3, 2018
Herod's Party Trick
July 7, 2021
2021 Discipleship in a Technological Age
July 8, 2021
Is This Not Mary’s Son?
July 3, 2024
7th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Whose Word is It Anyway?
July 11, 2010
A Different Sort of History
July 2, 2013
Snaring Satan
June 29, 2016
Unified in Prayer
July 24, 2019
Unified in Prayer
July 22, 2022
Ask, Search, Knock?
July 22, 2025
8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
One Big Happy Family
August 5, 2011
Questions for a Picnic
July 30, 2014
Signs of the Times: Charlie Gard and the Goods of Medicine
July 24, 2017
Scandalous Promises
July 25, 2017
The Present and Hidden Kingdom
July 22, 2020
Our Fixation with Jacob’s Ladder
July 19, 2023
For What Binds Us by Jane Hirshfield - Poem for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
July 19, 2023
8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Sex in Public
July 21, 2009
The Shepherd Who Feeds Us
July 17, 2012
The LORD Will Make You (into) a House
July 15, 2015
The Naked Emperor and the Foolishness of the Cross
July 11, 2018
2018: Defining Beauty
July 12, 2018
Shepherding Gone Wrong and Right
July 16, 2021
The Innocent Bystander
July 9, 2024
8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Knowing the One Thing
July 15, 2010
Tensions in the Law
July 9, 2013
Neighboring
July 6, 2016
Rich Towards God
July 30, 2019
The man whose riches satisfy his greed by Solon - Poem for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
July 27, 2022
An Economy of Death
July 27, 2022
What’s Your Story?
July 30, 2025
9th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Embodying God’s Unity in a Fragmented World
August 9, 2011
Rocking the Boat
August 5, 2014
Face to Face
August 2, 2017
The Cost of Compassion
July 27, 2020
The Gift of Eyes to See
July 25, 2023
On the Parables of the Mustard Seed by Denise Levertov - Poem for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
July 25, 2023
9th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
On Receiving Gifts
July 31, 2009
Dream or Deliverance?
July 21, 2015
Blessing in a Time of Violence
July 18, 2018
Imagining Reality
July 20, 2021
Shepherding Gone Wrong and Right
July 18, 2024
9th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Ask And It Will Be Given
July 22, 2010
Listening to the Word
July 16, 2013
New Endings, New Beginnings
July 14, 2016
Crisis of Faith
August 7, 2019
Crisis of Faith
August 5, 2022
Trading Tinsel for an Unfailing Treasure
August 5, 2025
10th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Signposts and Seeds
August 17, 2011
Junk-yard Dog
August 13, 2014
Dreams and Nightmares
August 10, 2017
Science, Church Signs, and the Hope We See
August 4, 2020
All Thirst Quenched by Lois Red Elk - Poem for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
August 1, 2023
Listen to Him, and He Will Tell You Who You Are
August 3, 2023
10th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
August 6, 2009
Discerning What Displeases the Lord
July 31, 2012
The Authority of Prisoners
July 29, 2015
Surprised by Beauty
July 25, 2018
Surprised by Beauty
July 25, 2018
The Work of God, the Bread of Life
July 27, 2021
Signs of the Kingdom
July 22, 2024
10th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Treading Silently Near Tender Hearts
July 25, 2013
The Last Word
July 20, 2016
Which Side?
August 14, 2019
The Secret of the Easy Yoke
August 11, 2022
An Invocation to St. Lucy - Poem for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
August 11, 2022
Jesus, A Cosmic Crisis
August 13, 2025
11th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Follow the Leader
August 22, 2011
The Self Under Attack
August 19, 2014
Witness to God's Story
August 16, 2017
Finisterre by David Whyte - Poem for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
August 10, 2023
Reflections for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
August 10, 2023
11th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Kings?
August 13, 2009
The Mystery of Agency
August 8, 2012
Truth Telling and Race in the “United” States
August 5, 2015
Lectionary Reflections for the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
August 1, 2018
Sharing the Gift of Truth with our Neighbors
August 2, 2021
An Invitation to Abundance
July 31, 2024
11th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
What Are You Afraid Of?
August 4, 2010
The Beginning of a Heavenly Sowing
July 27, 2016
The Only Time is Now
August 21, 2019
To Live in the Mercy of God by Denise Levertov - Poem for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
August 16, 2022
A Time for Liberation, a Space for Worship
August 17, 2022
The Weight We Cannot Lift
August 20, 2025
12th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
When Eight Days Were Fulfilled
August 1, 2008
Looking Toward Lent
August 1, 2008
Better Than Borders and Barriers
August 1, 2008
Mardi Gras
August 1, 2008
Lent is Scary; It Hurts Like Hell
August 1, 2008
Come and See
August 1, 2008
Coming To Our Senses
August 1, 2008
What Do You See?
August 1, 2008
The Risen Lazarus is No Stranger
August 1, 2008
Nice Guys and Crucifixion
August 1, 2008
Do You Believe in the Resurrection?
August 1, 2008
The Road to Exile
August 1, 2008
Suffering and Abundance
August 1, 2008
Jesus, Gates, and Sheep
August 1, 2008
How Can We Know the Way?
August 1, 2008
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
August 1, 2008
Trinity Sunday
August 1, 2008
Habeas Corpus
August 1, 2008
Third Sunday After Pentecost
August 1, 2008
The Binding of Isaac: Gen. 22: 1-14
August 1, 2008
Shrubs and Kingdoms
August 1, 2008
Fallible Church, Deliberate Grace
August 29, 2011
Life Threatening
August 29, 2014
Be Transformed
August 23, 2017
Forgiveness by Christopher Soto - Poem for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
August 17, 2023
Whose Land? Whose Community?
August 17, 2023
12th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
What to Wear in Battle
August 20, 2009
Reading Around the text
August 15, 2012
Wasting Time in the Banquet Hall
August 12, 2015
Two Meals in the Holy Land
August 8, 2018
Two Meals in the Holy Land
August 8, 2018
Reflections for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
August 12, 2021
Bread of Life
August 7, 2024
12th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Embodying the Word
August 12, 2010
And the Wind Began to Howl
August 12, 2010
Sacrifice
August 8, 2013
What Are You Preparing For?
August 3, 2016
Where is the Lord?
August 28, 2019
For Every Bird a Nest by Emily Dickinson - Poem for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
August 23, 2022
Cracked Cisterns
August 25, 2022
How to Eat Properly
August 25, 2025
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Rocking the Boat
August 8, 2008
The Reckoning
September 6, 2011
Minding Our Own Business
September 3, 2014
Holy God
August 29, 2017
Returning to the Scene
August 26, 2020
Changing Places in the Fire by Li-Young Lee - Poem for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
August 22, 2023
Only Peter?
August 23, 2023
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Preparing for the Gift
August 26, 2009
The Eucharist and the Hollow Place
August 20, 2012
Who Is This?
August 19, 2015
Solomon: Unedited and Uncut
August 15, 2018
Occasional Nibbles or Perpetual Feast?
August 17, 2021
We Are What We Eat
August 12, 2024
13th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Consecrated
August 18, 2010
Gather Us In
August 20, 2010
The Church in the Wild
August 15, 2013
A Deeper Communion
August 9, 2016
Estimating the Cost
September 4, 2019
Open Invitation
August 30, 2022
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks by Countee Cullen - Poem for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
August 30, 2022
Why Not Me?
September 2, 2025
14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Ethics After Pentecost
August 13, 2008
Bread from Heaven
September 14, 2011
Forgiven to Forgive
September 10, 2014
A Harsh and Dreadful Love
September 5, 2017
Of Birth Pains and Birthday Parties
September 2, 2020
Go Where You (Don’t) Wanna Go
August 31, 2023
Alone by Maya Angelou - Poem for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
August 31, 2023
14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
The Kingdom’s Gatekeepers
September 2, 2009
The Heart of the Matter
August 30, 2012
Inside and Out
August 25, 2015
A Long, Slow Read
August 23, 2018
Pissed Off and Lonesome
August 26, 2021
On Buildings and Bread and Blood
August 19, 2024
14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Being Grounded
August 24, 2010
Jeremiah and Park 51
August 27, 2010
Deep and Wide
August 20, 2013
God Calls People
August 18, 2016
The Sought, the Found, the Welcomed Home
September 10, 2019
The Way of Wholeness
September 6, 2022
Patience by Mary Oliver - Poem for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
September 8, 2022
We’re all lost sheep, but…
September 9, 2025
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Immigration and the Hebrew Midwives
August 23, 2008
So Much Unfairness of Things
September 20, 2011
The Quality of Mercy
September 15, 2014
"Certainly, Certainly, Certainly Lord!"
September 12, 2017
Mercy Shortage
September 10, 2020
Mercy Shortage
September 10, 2020
Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poem for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
September 6, 2023
Speaking Truth to Harm
September 8, 2023
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Setting Nature on Fire
September 10, 2009
Hearing and Obeying
September 5, 2012
Stranded on Olympus
September 4, 2015
Naming the Good (and the Evil)
August 29, 2018
Reflections for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 1, 2021
Not Radical Enough
August 28, 2024
15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Buckle Your Seatbelt
September 3, 2010
Praying for the Nation’s Peace and Justice
August 29, 2013
Serving Wealth
September 18, 2019
Slant by Suji Kwock Kim - Poem for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
September 14, 2022
Being Perplexed Together
September 14, 2022
Chaos, the Rhetoric of Hate, and the Way of Jesus
September 17, 2025
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Useless
August 28, 2008
Let Others Decide
September 28, 2011
The Unfairness of God’s Justice
September 27, 2014
Economy of Grace
September 19, 2017
Gifts in the Wilderness
September 16, 2020
Defeated by Sophie Jewett - Poem for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
September 14, 2023
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Kids in Church
September 16, 2009
Rebuked
September 15, 2012
Revolutionary Danger
September 9, 2015
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
September 5, 2018
Standing By Words
September 8, 2021
Co-insiders in the House of God
September 3, 2024
16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Signs, Sheep, and Shepherds
September 8, 2010
To Rest in Requiring Hands
September 4, 2013
Slavery and the Cost of Discipleship
August 31, 2016
You Can't Get There From Here
September 25, 2019
Holding On
September 20, 2022
Release by Liberty Hyde Bailey - Poem for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
September 22, 2022
Caught in the Story
September 24, 2025
17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Love and Power
September 5, 2008
It's About Us
October 6, 2011
Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands
October 1, 2014
Who's in Charge?
September 27, 2017
Cultivating Compassion
September 22, 2020
Whose Work? Which Economy?
September 20, 2023
To Die is Gain by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
September 20, 2023
17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Loving Enemies: A Training Program
September 24, 2009
A Hard, Simple Truth
September 19, 2012
Tough Guy
September 15, 2015
Setting Your Mind on Divine Things
September 11, 2018
Then He Took a Child
September 15, 2021
Holy and Confounding One
September 10, 2024
SF Regional Gathering 2024
September 13, 2024
17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Redeeming Shrewdness
September 16, 2010
Amazing Grace
September 10, 2013
Lost Sheep and Broken People
September 6, 2016
The Toughest Psalm
October 1, 2019
Faces of Faith
September 29, 2022
Vocation by William Stafford - Poem for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
September 29, 2022
18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
70 x 7 and 9/11
September 12, 2008
Who Decides?
October 11, 2011
Deadly Distractions
October 9, 2014
Weird Justice
October 4, 2017
The Vocation of the Vineyard
September 28, 2020
Keeping Up Appearances
September 26, 2023
Questions by Mark Bozzuti-Jones - Poem for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
September 26, 2023
18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Visceral Responses
October 1, 2009
How Much is Enough?
September 25, 2012
How Much is Enough?
September 24, 2015
Good Work
September 19, 2018
Taking Sides
September 22, 2021
Be Not So Great
September 17, 2024
18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Dives’ Sin of Omission
September 23, 2010
Proper 21: Not Enough For Everyone’s Greed
September 23, 2010
What Else is Money For?
September 20, 2013
Money and Friends
September 12, 2016
Hope Without Pretending
October 8, 2019
Gratitude in Exile: Seeking the Welfare of the City
October 4, 2022
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde - Poem for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
October 6, 2022
Do Not Decrease
October 9, 2025
19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Workers’ Rights and the Kingdom of Heaven
September 18, 2008
Leadership Lessons
October 20, 2011
They Cried to the Lord
October 17, 2014
Dressed in Something New
October 12, 2017
Learning to Trust
October 7, 2020
I Give You Back by Joy Harjo - Poem for the Ninteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
October 5, 2023
19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Thanks, but No Thanks
October 8, 2009
Where Mercy and Justice Meet
September 30, 2015
Implicating Prayer
September 26, 2018
Damage and Healing
September 28, 2021
Feeling Salty?
September 26, 2024
19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Fear of Beggars
September 21, 2016
Bossy Pray-er, Living Prayer
October 16, 2019
Jesus is Abundance
October 11, 2022
Keep A-Pluggin’ Away by Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poem for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
October 13, 2022
The Parable of the Unjust Judge and the Nagging Widow
October 15, 2025
20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
God’s Economy
September 24, 2008
The Deeper and Richer Life of Gratitude
October 25, 2011
Priests at Every Elbow
October 21, 2014
The Conundrum of a Coin
October 19, 2017
A Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
October 16, 2020
Expect More
October 10, 2023
20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
The Unknowable Shape of Things to Come
October 15, 2009
Strange New World
October 11, 2012
Nightmares of the Rich
October 6, 2015
Humility Beyond Sin Management
October 4, 2018
A Severing of the Spirit
October 6, 2021
Speaking In Suffering
October 3, 2024
20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Unchained Word
October 7, 2010
How Do You Sing the Lord's Song?
October 1, 2013
Captivities
September 28, 2016
The Self-Righteousness Divide, and the Peace of Christ
October 24, 2019
Prayer by Faisal Mohyuddin - Poem for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
October 18, 2022
When God is Extra
October 18, 2022
Judgment as Consolation
October 21, 2025
21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Law, Economy, Freedom and Community
September 30, 2008
The Terrible Speed of Mercy
November 2, 2011
Do As They Say, Not As They Do
October 28, 2014
Wrestling with Assumptions
October 26, 2017
Love of Neighbor and the Mystery of God With Us
October 21, 2020
Thanks by W.S. Merwin - Poem for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
October 19, 2023
21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Coming Home with Shouts of Joy
October 22, 2009
A Right to an Answer?
October 17, 2012
Helpless Before the Throne
October 14, 2015
To Heal the Sin-Sick Soul
October 10, 2018
Reflections for the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
October 14, 2021
From Possession to Participation
October 8, 2024
21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Learning, Knowing, Doing, Being
October 15, 2010
Broken Symmetry
October 10, 2013
Embracing Place
October 7, 2016
A Vision for Justice
October 30, 2019
A Vision for Justice
October 30, 2019
Book of Isaiah, Part I by Anne Carson - Poem for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
October 26, 2022
What Sort of Life is Worth Celebrating?
October 26, 2022
22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Raging and Rejoicing
October 9, 2008
Jesus is Coming - Look Busy
November 9, 2011
Party Prep
November 5, 2014
Saints in the Plural
October 30, 2017
You May Need To Woe
October 29, 2020
22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
A Christian Memorial Day
October 27, 2009
Home is Often a Troubled Place
October 24, 2012
Keep Reading
October 20, 2015
Posts for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
October 18, 2018
Daring to Trust in God's Provision
October 20, 2021
Reflections for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
October 20, 2021
The Wages of Goodness and the Reign of God
October 16, 2024
22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Humble Pie*
October 20, 2010
Recreating Eaarth
October 16, 2013
Prayer in the Zone
October 12, 2016
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
November 5, 2019
The “Glory” Days
November 3, 2022
Unmovable, Unbreakable, Unshakeable
November 4, 2025
23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
No Small Change
October 14, 2008
Lamb and Shepherd: The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
November 17, 2011
Enter Into the Lord's Joy
November 11, 2014
Links from Year A
November 7, 2017
A Different Kind of Force
November 4, 2020
The Gift by Li-Young Lee- Poem for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
November 2, 2023
True Power
November 2, 2023
23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
First Things First
October 31, 2012
Feasting with the Saints
October 26, 2015
Posts for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
October 25, 2018
A Blind Man Sees “The Way”
October 21, 2024
23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
In Memory of Saint Marcellus
October 30, 2010
Why I Need the Terrible Judgment of God
October 25, 2013
The Beautiful Reality of Repentance
October 19, 2016
Posts for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
November 14, 2019
Dark Testament, Verse 8 by Pauli Murray - Poem for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
November 11, 2022
24th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Leadership by Imitation
October 22, 2008
Learning to Live Like Sheep
November 18, 2014
We Do Not Own What We Have
November 15, 2017
Shorting the Unreal
November 10, 2020
Urgency, Formation, and Grace
November 9, 2023
The Watchman of Ephraim - Poem for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
November 9, 2023
24th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Religious But Not Spiritual
November 11, 2009
The Lord Upholds the Orphan and the Widow
November 5, 2012
A Widow's Shame and Ours
November 3, 2015
Covenants Have Legs
October 31, 2018
Reflections for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
November 2, 2021
A Life of Wholeness
October 29, 2024
24th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
All the Saints
November 4, 2010
To Feel as Christians
October 30, 2013
Loved for What We Have in Us
October 25, 2016
Posts for Christ the King Sunday
November 22, 2019
The Days are Surely Coming: A Lectionary Kaleidoscope
November 16, 2022
Before All Things, by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
November 16, 2022
The Wonder of Christ’s Kingship
November 18, 2025
25th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Blessed Are They
October 29, 2008
A Different Kind of Shepherding
November 22, 2017
Belonging Before Believing
November 20, 2020
The Economy of Acorns
November 13, 2023
Making the House Ready for the Lord by Mary Oliver - Poem for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
November 15, 2023
25th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Ultimate Imagination
November 18, 2009
Living into the Mystery
November 14, 2012
All Will Be Thrown Down
November 10, 2015
Not So Ancient: Reflections on Institutions, Widows, and Discipleship
November 7, 2018
Life Between Lament and Praise
November 10, 2021
A School for Subversive Friendship: The Ekklesia Project
November 11, 2021
Preparing for Christian Marriage
November 11, 2021
Paganism and the Professions
November 11, 2021
God’s Beautiful City: Christian Mission After Christendom
November 11, 2021
Church Membership: An Introduction to the Journey
November 11, 2021
Authority, Freedom, and the Dreams That We Are Made Of
November 11, 2021
Missional Evangelism
November 11, 2021
Christian Worship and Capital Punishement
November 11, 2021
How Christians Might Remember Well: Lessons from Moses and After September 11
November 11, 2021
What Is So Holy About Scripture? Listening to Scripture in a Technological Age
November 11, 2021
Being Subject to One Another As We Sing
November 11, 2021
God’s Grandeur: The Church in the Economy of Creation
November 11, 2021
Funeral Practices in a Changed Time and Culture
November 11, 2021
Just War As Christian Discipleship
November 11, 2021
Wordcare: Hauerwas, Language, and the Church
November 11, 2021
Aging, Dementia, and the Faith Community
November 11, 2021
The Taste of Discipleship: Cultivating the Flavor of Faithfulness
November 11, 2021
The Lord’s Supper Changes the Immigration Conversation
November 11, 2021
Blessings, Curses, and the Cross: A Scriptural View of Wealth
November 11, 2021
Practicing Ecclesial Patience: Patient Practice Makes Perfect
November 11, 2021
Embodying Care: The Works Of Mercy And Care Of Creation
November 11, 2021
Theologies of Baptism and the Formation of Children
November 11, 2021
Anticipating Abundance
November 7, 2024
25th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Got Conflict?
November 11, 2010
To Sweet Impossible Blossom
November 7, 2013
God of the Living
November 2, 2016
26th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Wisdom and Folly
November 4, 2008
Ordinary Saints by Malcolm Guite - Poem for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
November 20, 2023
Holy Presumption
November 23, 2023
26th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
So It Is To Be. Amen.
November 21, 2012
Reign of Christ
November 18, 2015
Something is About to Happen
November 13, 2018
Reckoning
November 16, 2021
Things Fall Apart
November 13, 2024
26th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
Oscar Romero on Christ’s Kingship
November 17, 2010
The Crucified King
November 18, 2010
What is the Good News Anyway?
November 13, 2013
Election
November 8, 2016
Don't Panic (The End is Good News)
November 8, 2016
27th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Give it All
November 12, 2008
27th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
Subjects of a Different King
November 18, 2024
27th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
King/Fool
November 21, 2013
King/Fool
November 18, 2016
28th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Pledging Allegiance
November 19, 2008