Discipleship
April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
April 28, 2019
I call it the Second Struggle. After Easter, Peter and the disciples still needed to grow.
June 28, 2019
“Discipleship is not an offer man makes to Christ,” said Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And it’s the point of this Sunday’s passage from Luke, about being “fit for the kingdom of God” (Lk 9:62).
June 30, 2019
Simone Weil, that eccentric and brilliant woman, said once, rather famously, that it was “more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin.” Contemplating sin risked pride, she said; admitting failure due to “sheer stupidity,” on the other hand, the bad results of our plain mediocrity: “No knowledge is more to be desired,” she wrote. Because […]
July 5, 2019
Our mission is to advance the kingdom of God by making disciples of Jesus.
July 12, 2019
Who is my neighbor? It is our culture’s most fundamental question.
August 17, 2019
It’s embarrassing for the socially comfortable Christian: Jesus’s talk of peaceless division. What does he mean saying children will be divided from their parents, that it’s not peace he brings?