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...

What you focus on grows. Our final adage for the week teaches us that the more we think about something, the more it will become part of us and our reality....

Sana all. This Filipino expression means “I wish everyone could have the same thing or experience.” It is often said to express desire or envy of other people’s circumstances. With our...

Touch heals. Not a lot of churches that I know of have a healing ministry. Many do hospital visitations and pray for the sick, but the sense of touch is often...