Scripture: Exodus 1:8-2:10The infant Moses is rescued by a series of women who reject complicity with a deadly regime. In great moments of upheaval, they remind us that our daily lives and work are often the site of choosing what will align us with resurrection hope.
Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28Fresh from teaching the difference between ritual purity and goodness, Jesus encounters a Canaanite woman pleading for health for her daughter. His first answer wounds us, but the woman’s insistence on the power and grace of God’s care pours out healing from division, and from all that ails us.
Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33Jesus comes to his disciples walking on the water. Peter longs to join him, but finds himself sinking. When we find ourselves in the deep end of life, is that a conviction of our faith? Or, is the faith that we are called to carry one in which we are not guaranteed we … Read more
Scripture: Genesis 21:8-21In Genesis, we are told a complicated story of the sons of Abraham. As Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, are cast out, God hears their pleas. What wholeness is waiting for us as we begin to imagine the prayer lives of people outside our own tradition, and that God hears the deep needs … Read more
Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20As we bless graduates on their next adventures, Jesus sends out his beloved disciples to baptize in the name of what we now call the Trinity. But what he, and we, may be hoping we share is not a particular name of God, but the unending activity of God: loving, communicating, and connecting.