Book: Luke

Jesus’s agenda, which we are called to follow, is about healing, liberating and gathering in the excluded, not purifying the community by excluding anyone.

In baptism we follow Jesus in being “ordained” and empowered for mission.

The childhood picture of Jesus’ development calls us to ensure that our relationship with God is our primary allegiance, our first responsibility and the foundation of our identity.

Young. Woman. Pregnant. Unmarried. How does Mary the mother of Jesus speak to you today?

If the message of Christmas is real, then our preparations for it need to be radically life-changing.

The doctrine of the Trinity teaches us how to take sides when the Bible brings us conflicting voices, especially over persistent issues like ethno-nationalism, racism, war, and genocide.

Christ is always stretching the boundaries beyond what we can comprehend, and his ascension stretches his presence to encompass even what seem to us to be his absence.

The physicality of the resurrection is a mystery that assures us that God values and honours us as whole, embodied humans, even if our bodies are damaged or worn out.

God reaches out to us through babies and elderly folks with a message of love and redemption that cuts through the theological justifications of empire and warmongering and calls us to peace.

The the birth of Jesus we see the beginning of a peace mission that is not based on force but on patience, forgiveness and presence.

Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.

Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.