St. John’s Park Slope

Jesus and the Canaanite Woman

The Canaanites brought back in

He Treads The Sea

The walking on the water story is a theophany…

Someone Always Pays

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Nothing Is Lost

Charli XCX’s new album ends with David Cronenberg saying, over and over, that no one lasts forever. I appreciate the honesty. A critic called it a litany for an afterlife-free church. Romans 8 is the response. Not a Hallmark card, not death-denial, but the promise that God makes a way out of no way. That nothing is lost. That everything bad will be undone.

The Wheat and the Weeds

We cannot tell wheat from weeds — not in the world, not in the church, not even in ourselves. The line runs through every heart. The servants’ zeal to purify is the most natural instinct in the world, and it’s the one thing forbidden…