What shall we do with Joseph?

Through the ages, Joseph has been portrayed behind Mary’s chair, hiding behind a pillar or looking irrelevant. Yet Joseph was a person with his own faith story.

How do you know my name?

Zacchaeus wanted to be an observer, a critic, and not a participant. But Jesus had other ideas…

Here I am

There is one glaring spot in the Bible where the phrase “Here I am” is shockingly absent.

A hole in the roof

How unorthodox a path would I be willing to take to help someone who has been shut out of the presence of Jesus by “the crowd”?

Not yet the end of the story

God not only tolerates complaints, but practically demands them.

As trees walking

What keeps us from seeing—really heart-to-heart seeing—other people?

Word from an intemperate heart

The book of Jude seems written by someone who has a burr under his saddle or, as William Beahm of blessed memory used to say, “a raspberry seed under his dentures.”

Standing idly by

Jacob’s lack of response is shocking. He has no answer, no solution to the violence

Purity, power and good things gone wrong

I have wondered why institutions that began with the purest of motives often end up creating havoc, chaos, and evil.

On the way to destruction

The lollapalooza grand-daddy of all the off-the-wall Bible stories.