Good News Protects the Vulnerable

Good News Protects the Vulnerable

In Matthew 18, parents brought children to Jesus, while the disciples, trying to be helpful, barred their access. Jesus responded, “Don’t stop them – let them come to me!” We center children in our culture. But in the ancient world, children held little social...
Together, what seems impossible becomes possible

Together, what seems impossible becomes possible

In Mark 6:32-44, Jesus fed a crowd of thousands with a few loaves and fishes that his disciples offered him. Mark’s telling of the story emphasizes numbers: two hundred denarii, five loaves and two fish, groups of fifties and hundreds, twelve baskets, five thousand....
Tell Me Something Good

Tell Me Something Good

In Luke 7:36–50, a sex worker hears that Jesus will be attending a party hosted by Simon the Pharisee. She crashes the dinner party. When she sees that Simon, the host, fails to wash Jesus’ feet, she kneels down, washes the dirt off with her tears and hair, and...
Tell Me Something Good

Tell Me Something Good

In this season of Lent, we are grounding ourselves in Good News. Like trees rooted deep into the forest floor, we root ourselves in the soil of God’s kinship. This kinship is like the mycelium that connects the forest. It is an underground network, a web of Goodness...
Letting Go, We Carry Goodness with Us

Letting Go, We Carry Goodness with Us

In life, there are these holy, human moments of epiphany when the goodness our heart longs for is with us. We are so wrapped in goodness that we know, in our bones, what it means to be the beloved, what it means to worship the Beloved. It is natural that we want these...

Salt and Light

Salt is powerful. It protects life by preserving nourishment. Light is powerful. It expands with warmth and clarity of vision, falling generously on whatever is in its path. As we stand in the flow of divine love, and God’s love flows into us and out of us, we become...