A friend asked me for my definition of hope, and I found myself talking about covenant. Hope is the love of neighbor and the world that keeps you going, despite all of the reasons for despair. During an interfaith panel that I sat on a student asked how the panelists different traditions maintained hope in … Continue reading “A Psalm” by Thomas Merton
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Luke 8:1-25 Being the Good Soil
The Parable of the Sower is the first parable in Luke’s Gospel, and includes a handy teaching on the very nature of parables and what we can expect from them in v. 10. Richard Rohr compares parables to Zen koans. They’re meant to split apart our normal ways of thinking about things and help us … Continue reading Luke 8:1-25 Being the Good Soil
What Kind of God Exists?
In the second semester of my sophomore year of college - a semester when I was alone most of the time, and sad, mourning the end of a relationship and trying to figure out who I was without the girl who had left - during this depressing semester I took a class called “Philosophy of … Continue reading What Kind of God Exists?
Jonah
In collecting resources for preaching about Jonah, I found the following: See Jonah Run: Comic Narrative in the Book of Jonah by Beverly Beem. A very good survey of Jewish midrash surrounding the book of Jonah can be found in A biblical text and its afterlives: the survival of Jonah in western culture by Yvonne Sherwood. A … Continue reading Jonah
KPB Stevens 