Today’s passage helps us understand qualities of discipleship and puts forth two images for Christian community: salt and light. Salt is an amazing ingredient that flavors and preserves. Yet, when “salt...

I heard a story about Mother Teresa when she was beginning her ministry to the poor and dying in Calcutta, India. She had taken a plate of food to a woman...

In many of his letters, Paul enumerates a list of the gifts the Holy Spirit bestows on those who follow Christ. His concern for the churches he founded and supported through...

Many years ago I studied Anglican spirituality at Canterbury Cathedral in England. The first night the dean of that church introduced participants to the program with a candlelight pilgrimage through the...

Paul proclaims “God’s wisdom, secret and hidden.” The light of Christ that blinded him on the road to Damascus has filled his heart and mind. Freed from his blindness, he receives...

In some parts of the world, Christians practice evangelism by sending a young Christian couple to a village to live and work. The couple begins their family and lives faithfully day...

The Creation story in Genesis reveals God first creating light that enlightens an earth bathed in darkness. God speaks light into being. Many understand this first light of Creation as the...

The Beatitudes are a prophetic utterance. They claim and proclaim God’s favor in places and for people for whom it is not yet apparent. They point the disciples and us to...

Jesus goes up the mountain to teach. The writer of Matthew’s Gospel addresses a Jewish audience for whom Moses’ teaching from Mount Sinai loomed large in both geography and self-understanding. Commentators...

We often hear it said that “seeing is believing,” but “believing is seeing” can also be true. Our expectations and beliefs shape what we see or perceive. Paul notes that the...