Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison? It’s the question that stands at the heart of this week’s Gospel reading from Matthew 25. When was it that we attended to your needs, or failed to attend to your needs, Lord? And […]

We just read a very difficult Gospel text – one that’s, frankly, hard to reconcile with my understanding of God’s nature. This parable stands with others we’ve read recently from Matthew’s Gospel, especially with the one about the guy without the proper wedding garment (Remember him from a couple weeks ago?). He, too, ended up […]

Our reading from Amos 5 today, like most of the book of Amos, is full of judgment. But it turns in verse 24 to a call to deeper commitment. In studying this text with my colleagues this week it occurred to us (thanks, Pastor Elizabeth Neese) that in our worship life – in the rituals […]

Thin places – I don’t know if you’ve ever heard that term, but it’s a phrase that comes from Celtic Christian spirituality, which has gained quite a bit in popularity with the emergence of the Iona community, on the Scottish Isle of Iona, and the general increase in interest in what might be called “alternative […]