“We don’t have to climb up to God,” Bishop Willimon reminds us. “In Jesus Christ, God descends, condescends to us. “If we’re to be rescued, saved, plucked out of whatever ditch we’re in, it will be at the Lord’s initiative.”…

Willimon, and I’m just gonna inhale and get outa his way — God’s kingdom comes to us, not we to the Kingdom. The Kingdom’s outbreak among us is God’s doing, not the result of our good work, sincere believing, social…

“Everything about our relationship with God,” asserts Bishop Wm. Willimon, “begins and continues and ends with God in Christ slinging seed our way, stooping down to bind up our wounds, with God’s merciful resolve to be for us and for…

“Scripture has little to say about humanity’s search for God,” says Bishop Willimon. “From start to finish the Bible is a long story of God’s unrelenting, resourceful, determined search for us.” And aren’t you glad? So am I.

Picking up right where we left off yesterday, with that podcaster’s discourse on empathy, Wm. Willimon writes, Thank God the man never mentioned the one who, in his last meal, responded to our hunger with “This is my body, my…

“Just heard a podcaster rant that all of America’s problems are due to ‘the sin of empathy,” wrote Willimon. “I inwardly both groaned and laughed at that, at the misuse of the language, at the podcaster’s poor and confused vocabulary,…

I invite to you treat yourself right now to Luke 1:50-55. For real: take a moment and go to Luke 1:50-55. Hopefully it will remind you of Advent. In the same book we’re enjoying this Lenten Season, Wm. Willimon writes…

“Many people my age,” writes our retired Bishop Wm. Willimon, say, “I don’t want to be a burden to my family” or “I don’t wan to be dependent of the charity of there’s in my old age.” We thereby show…

Luke 10‘s parable of the Good Samaritan, writes Bishop Wm. Willimon, “is more than an example story that exhorts us to better human behavior; it’s a story about the saving work of the Christ.” Amen?