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God can be found in the providing of hospitality to strangers and in those times when we are open to the hospitality of others. (Third...

This week (Second Sunday after Pentecost, or Proper 5 [10]) we begin a season of reading St Paul and his letter to the Romans. It is...

The Trinity is something we can get ourselves in a knot over. I have certainly wrestled with the idea and construction of the Trinity....

All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...

The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...

One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...

Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...

This story of the healing of the ten lepers and the one who says thank you to Jesus is so well known that we can miss the genius of the...

There is much in our outer world to lament, to fear, to regret. And there is much in our inner world to repent of, to let go of, and to...

The teaching about wealth and our proper relationship with wealth is relentless and provocative in Luke’s gospel. And this week’s...

Can the Jesus who told the beautiful encouraging parables about finding what and who is lost last week also be the author of this week’s...

The parables of Jesus about a God who seeks us out and rejoices over us is such a welcome relief after weeks of hard teachings. As always...