This week the news has once again turned our attention toward the Middle East, as tensions with Iran continue to escalate and the threat of a wider regional war grows more real. For many of us, these headlines stir both concern for the present and memories of conflicts past. I remember the first Gulf War […]
Mark 6:32-44, 2 Kings 4:42-44 We started this morning with Elisha. A man brings twenty loaves. A hundred people are hungry. The servant does the math. “It’s not enough.” And the prophet says, “Give it to the people.” He doesn’t argue with the numbers. He doesn’t deny the scarcity. He simply refuses to let scarcity […]
Dear Faith Family, One of the gifts of being back in Kansas is the sky. There is something about a prairie sunset, the horizon set ablaze in orange, red, and purple, that invites us to pause and look up. Creation has a way of preaching, if we are paying attention. This week offered an added […]
Luke 7:36-50, Matthew 25:35-40 I did not invite him to honor him. Let’s be clear about that. I invited him because people were talking. You couldn’t walk through Capernaum without hearing his name. They said he healed a centurion’s servant, a Roman, and not even by touching him, just by speaking. Then word came from […]
Dear Beloved — made from stardust, On Ash Wednesday morning I had the privilege of marking foreheads with ashes at the church coffee bar — preschool teachers hurrying between classrooms, parents wrangling children, members stopping on their way to work. One by one I traced the cross and spoke the ancient words: “You are a […]
