Encountering Matthew The writer Matthew has given us two parables about vineyards and obedience. Note the context. Jesus had ridden into the city for the last time on a donkey. He … read more

Encountering Matthew If the Bible is a mirror of identity as Dr. James Sanders claims, then the Matthean passage confirms this truth. The text shows us an embarrassing reflection… read more

Encountering Matthew Matthew presents two parables about vineyards, the fruit of vineyards, and divine accountability for fruit. These parables are told toward the end of the… read more

Encountering Mark On the way to his death in Jerusalem, Jesus continues to teach his disciples. After a discussion with his disciples about the false exorcist, in which Jesus… read more

Encountering Luke With today’s Gospel we are deep in Lent, the season of honesty about our sin and honesty about our need to change. In the dynamic of Luke 13:1-9 we find… read more

Encountering Amos I wonder if we should make something of the Lectionary’s linkage of Amos’s “plumb line” with Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan. In … read more