Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18  • Psalm 27  • Philippians 3:17-4:1  • Luke 13:31-35 or Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) The second Sunday in Lent, a season dedicated to fasting and reflection on our sins, seems a…

Download or Stream this Episode In a hundred small churches’ Sunday school classrooms, on any given Sunday in a year, you’ll hear the senior citizens singing the same song: America…

Download or Stream this Episode Those with ears to hear have heard, no doubt, that liberals and conservatives in American politics have polarized federal politics in unprecedented manners, with even…

Deuteronomy 26:1-11  • Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16  • Romans 10:8b-13  • Luke 4:1-13 Since Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, I have a public-service announcement to make: LENT IS A FAST. FASTING MEANS ABSTAINING FROM SOMETHING INHERENTLY GOOD, FOR…

Exodus 34:29-35  • Psalm 99  • 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2  • Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) Now that I preach only occasionally, usually when our preacher at Bogart Christian Church is out of town, I realize that one of…

Download or Stream this Episode Join Danny Anderson, Drew Van’tland, and the Book of Nature’s Todd Pedlar for a discussion about the American (and the Christian) obsession with football. Is…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour leads Todd Pedlar and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence.

Jeremiah 1:4-10  •Psalm 71:1-6  • 1 Corinthians 13:1-13  • Luke 4:21-30 I’ll admit that the gospel reading for this week is one that would have tempted me to too-easy, shock-value sermons in a…

Download or Stream this Episode Letters of Fire from St. Pauls Press Settle in and join Nathan Gilmour and Father Thomas Esposito, O. Cist., for a conversation about letter-writing, Harry Potter,…

Isaiah 62:1-5  • Psalm 36:5-10  • 1 Corinthians 12:1-11  • John 2:1-11 I realized, as I started re-reading John 2, that I don’t have much of an idea of what a “steward” is. …

Isaiah 43:1-7  • Psalm 29  • Acts 8:14-17  • Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Before I get rolling on the reflection proper, I want to exhort folks who are preaching the gospel text this week…

Download or Stream this Episode To the one who writes “Jesus is the answer” on the youth-room poster or on the bathroom stall, I reply, “Jesus is the question.”  And…

Jeremiah 31:7-14 or Sirach 24:1-12  • Psalm 147:12-20 or Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21  • Ephesians 1:3-14  • John 1:(1-9), 10-18 One of my defects of personality (the list is long) is that, when…

Series Index Whew!  What a semester! As you might have guessed, my crazy teaching overload and Todd’s research responsibilities have pulled us away from Kant for the span of the…

Download or Stream this Episode For your Christmas enjoyment (or Advent, if you’re inclined to write that sort of objection in the comments section), we present again David Grubbs reading…