If the universe isn't intrinsically just, then why do we humans have such an innate yearning for justice? And what does it mean to worship a God who is just? Let's explore how God's righteous justice—demonstrated most vividly through Christ—can inform and reshape our own sense of justice.

Is “karma” a relaxing thought? Psychological research has shown that many people have an intuitive sense that the universe is just: everyone, eventually, gets what they deserve. Good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. Jesus, along with the New Testament writers, seems to confound this understanding, offering us a richer and ultimately more hopeful promise of justice that travels outside of karma. 

There's an amazing grace to be found we exchange our heavy burdens for Jesus' yoke, which is easy and light.

Audrey Kanagy explores Jesus' teachings on trust from the Gospel of Matthew

A healthy diet has a fair amount of seasonality to it: using fresh, local ingredients when they're in season. In the same way, encountering Scripture has a seasonal dimension.

Cultural appropriation, colonialism, and the rich diversity of Scripture... considered through the lens of chicken tikka masala.

Scripture is saturated with the language of food. This week, we explore the hermeneutics of Jesus and Paul through pasta carbonara. 

Do "unity" and "purity" exist as opposite ends of a spectrum, where moving toward one inevitably means moving away from the other? And if that's true, is it possible to find Jesus anywhere along that spectrum?

What do we do with an enemy? Paul offers one surprising suggestion in the Book of Romans, and we find a vivid example of this wisdom being put into practice right in the middle of Cold War tensions. 

Do we experience the diversity of God's church as a problem to be solved or a gift to be received?