The Beatitudes are both a promise and a demand. They promise God’s action breaking into the affairs of this world. They demand that Christ’s followers manifest kingdom values in their daily...

Too often we read the Beatitudes as passive statements or promises of future rewards, but they are an active proclamation of God’s reign amid human misery, a prophetic reversal of the...

I belong to an indigenous community that inhabits the mountains and hills in the northern part of the Philippines. Our ancestors were labeled as barbaric, demonic, ignorant, and foolish by Spanish...

Paul was writing to a congregation beset with disunity, immorality, infidelity, and other problems. In many ways, the Corinthian church was a microcosm of Corinth itself. Corinth was a major Greek...

When I was a child, my parents farmed land we did not own for a living. Every planting season, we had to take loans from wealthy businessmen so we could buy...

Micah deplored the wealthy who were oppressing the poor, and he warned that Judah was doomed to fall because of its failure to do justice. When we reject justice, we reject...

Remembrance is central in the divine-human covenantal relationship. Our journey is largely shaped by past events of God’s encounter with God’s people. Today’s reading begins with God’s rebuke against Judah for...

Fishing involves a whole lot of waiting, waiting, and more waiting. And even after all that waiting, sometimes nothing happens. The disciples knew that as well as any fisherman today does....

We live in a world where platform and audience equal power and profit. It is an era when people are tempted to gauge their worth by how many people listen to...

Earlier this week, we remembered the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We also remembered the sermon he preached in Memphis, Tennessee, just before he was assassinated. He...