The writer of the psalm points out attributes of God beyond the main attribute of holiness. Whereas the world is exposed to powerful kings who oppress the powerless and vulnerable people...

The psalm presents the Lord as the God who is holy, available, and present to all. God is the king who is exalted and worthy of humans’ worship. God is also...

Moses has taken a pause from the Exodus journey and has spent forty days and nights in the presence of God, consulting on the covenant and receiving the remade tablets of...

Luke’s version of the Golden Rule appears in verse 31, reading: “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” The Golden Rule is not a call for enlightened...

Enemies, sometimes, can be redefined as neighbors, as Jesus will teach in Luke 10. Here, in chapter 6, Luke describes what the difficult yet doable tradition of loving your enemy entails:...

The late Rev. Peter Gomes, chaplain to Harvard University’s Memorial Chapel, once preached that Christians are “resurrection people.” In making that claim, he sought to contend that resurrection is more than...

Black church traditions have long argued that trouble doesn’t last (Rev. Timothy Write wrote a song about it). Some Buddhist traditions teach a similar truth, contending that our embodied reflections on...

Fear is not the existential opposite of trusting in God—fretting is. Fretting grows anxiety in ways that make us focus on ourselves. Trusting grows faith and assurance that help us focus...

Managing the ancestral legacies of parents and forebears can impact the lived experiences and lived theologies of descendants, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. In the case of...

Joseph’s kissing of his siblings symbolizes the possibility of tender masculinity in a world ripped to pieces—like Joseph’s coat of many colors—by toxic, predatory masculinity. From chapter 42 where he speaks...