What comes after failure? What do we do after we’ve broken faith with someone we love, or after our silence has made their isolation or suffering worse? Is there a way to move forward to repair the damage, or are we stuck forever in neutral or, worse...

We’re alive. Yes, I know what the message of Easter is supposed to be – that Christ is alive, that he is risen. And he is. But so are we. As Paul reminds us in Romans, “We have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was...

And so we come to the end of the story for today and Jesus’ burial at the hands of a righteous man called Joseph. These few short sentences are packed with theological significance as we attend to righteousness, the Law and the...

Every one of us knows something of the chaos that is wrought by conflict-avoidant leadership. Of course no one really enjoys conflict but when we fail to take the responsibility that is properly ours, acting out of our integrity, and taking the heat...

You’d think this would be easy for me. Today’s Gospel might be the most beloved story in all of Scripture. Who hasn’t heard of the Prodigal Son? Who isn’t moved at the thought that a dead relationship can find new life, that someone who seemed lost to...

Why do we suffer? Both Jesus and Paul take a crack at this in today’s readings and reach different conclusions. This is part of why I love the Bible. What some call maddening I call “realistic complexity.” We almost never hear one side of a story...