The Sunday lectionary gospel for Trinity 13 in Year C is the first two of the three 'parables of the lost' in Luke 15, the ...
The Sunday lectionary gospel reading for Trinity 14 in Year C is Luke 16.1–13, the so-called Parable of the Unjust Steward ...
Such attention to the story allows the parables to become genuinely subversive. “Perhaps,” Bodner notes, “we’re all ...
Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 28, 2025.
What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...
“Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea” by James Tissot. (Credit: Wikicommons/Public domain.) Listen At the heart of Christian discipleship is the call to prayer. As followers of the Lord Jesus, we are ...
The finding of Our Lord in the Temple is recounted in Luke 2:42-50: And when he was 12 years old, they went up according to custom; and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus ...
Author's note: Context plays an important role in how the term "queer" is employed here. This word has a history of being used as a slur and could offend some people. However, as language evolves, ...
In Resident Aliens, Stanley Hauerwas and I warned that seminary biblical courses sometimes disempower budding preachers: See? You’ll never have the linguistic, analytical, or historical skills to ...