Prefer to listen? Here’s the podcast version of What are you worth? The parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, recounted in Matthew 20:1-16, features a parable about worth. Let me put this bluntly: this parable is an affront to every fair-minded human being. To show you why, let me write you into that story:  […]

A reflection on Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday celebrates the triune nature of God, a concept with a long and difficult development in the early Christian community. The idea that God is three persons united in one “being” is tough. There’s no passage in the Bible where God announces, “I am actually three different persons, united […]

I appreciate the many thoughtful responses to The Woman at the Well, and I appreciate the expressions of concern and even anxiety. All these thoughts and feelings have their place in our society’s current moment of self-examination, and I’d like to respond. I think a good approach is to dig a little deeper. “What was he […]

Wednesday, June 17, was the anniversary of the murder of the Emmanuel Nine, and churches across the country remembered the victims and their families and congregations. These moments of reflection on lives lost to hatred are particularly poignant at this historical moment, when many white people are awakening to the legacies of racism in our […]