Guest Preacher Rev. Debra Daly for Earth Day

The story of Lazarus is often treated as an amazing, but simple story of life overcoming death. What we don’t often see is how vigorously Jesus resists his own death at the hands of an angry mob throughout this story. It is simply not the case that, just because Jesus was going to die anyway, […]

When Jesus and the disciples encounter a blind man, they ask, “Who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?” Behind that question is a long theological argument over whether the sins of the parents are visited on the children or whether each person suffers for their own sins. Jesus offers yet […]

When Jesus encounters the woman at the well in Samaria, the narrator notes, “Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.” That is true. It is also true that “Jews share everything in common with Samaritans.” Therein lies the problem with making the differences between “us” and “them” into solid, permanent walls.

The biblical view of truth is not as a dead thing, such as a brass ring that we can obtain or a set of propositions that we can figure out. Biblical truth is an incarnate, living reality, known relationally such as when Jesus says, “I am the truth.” As such, truth will always be in […]