The birth of Jesus is narrated as a wondrous spectacle full of supernatural events featuring a cast of implausibly interconnected characters from disparate social locations across a wide geographic span. Angels with shocking proclamations to a pregnant virgin and to shepherds! Wise men from the East following a mysterious star in the night sky!...

As I sat down this week to prepare a message for a Christmas Eve service, what loomed large in my reflections was the birthing and nursing mother as an icon of love, and how complicated this imagery is in society and also in church communities.

In her recent book The Biblical Mothers Deliver, Nancy Klancher cites a “job description”...

The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 tells the extraordinary story of outsiders who become insiders. 

Most people think genealogies are boring. Long lists of names are rarely considered inspirational. But buried in the lists of the family tree of Jesus in Matthew 1 are surprises that tell a story of radical inclusion. This long list of...

This week we are featuring another artist conversation, adding a new voice to a growing dialogue about art as an important facet in religious interpretation. 

Melissa Webster is an artist, art teacher, and art historian, who has agreed to share with our community some of her woodcuts illustrating themes of Advent.

JODY W: ...