The woman at the well disrupts out simplistic systems for categorizing people (and reveals how biased they are!)

There’s a real temptation to pigeonhole people - it reduces our cognitive dissonance if we can fit them into some preexisting box so we don’t have to put all the energy into receiving them as they are. Jesus takes a different approach.

Today’s poem was written almost a thousand years ago by an old monk trying to help people stay connected with God not just through scholarship but through embracing mystery.

It can be too easy for the church to just keep doing what it’s always done… but Jesus models for us a willingness to grow and change for the sake of the world.

It would be offensive and perhaps threatening to say that Jesus wasn’t perfect. And yet that’s exactly what the Bible says - but in a way that’s hopeful and in no way says that Jesus was corrupted.

The gospel writers have their own agendas in writing… and in the passage for today we see how Matthew’s agenda was unhelpful (except to help us admit our own biases).

This is the prayer that Laura Lacombe led the church in on Sunday - fully of passion and pain and boldness.

Jesus doesn’t wander through the world aimlessly. He’s constantly situating himself in the story of God’s relationship to the people.

All of the rabbis in the time of Jesus (just like pastors today!) had their own perspective on what was most important to stress from their bible. What did Jesus choose?

Today we break down the three components of compassion.

Too often the compassion of Jesus has been defaced by religious people who have been far less than compassionate. What if we got back to the original compassion of Jesus?

Jesus blessed the poor… and there’s so much for us all to learn from this, whether we are poor or not. Kat Armas gives us a keen insight into the poor’s advantage in reading the scriptures.

Today we look at some of the scriptural backing for God’s preferential concern for the poor. What do we make of these teachings?

If our Gospel doesn’t really bring freedom - liberation - to real people in rough situations, is it really good news?

James Cone reflects on our theological starting points when we come to very practical issues like hunger, which Jesus taught about. What impacts how you think of these things?

Today we get to set aside time to hear from a contemporary Christian leader who has some keen insights about anger.

Anger certainly is not always wrong. And often it’s very useful at helping motivate us towards fighting injustice.

One of the healthiest things we can do with our anger is to listen for the shame that often lies underneath it.