“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?

“The good neighbor to the man dying in the ditch is a ________? “A religious terrorist? A neo-Nazi? The rich guy who lives next door who posted an offensive yard sign and voted differently from you in the last election?…

Wm. Willimon again — What impress me is not just that the Samaritan stopped and cared, heck, I would have done that. It was the way he cared: extravagance and recklessness akin to a careless Sower slinging seed. Most of…

In my part of the world, ask folks, “Who’s a Christian?” and they will likely respond, ‘A Christian is somebody who has accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior so that when they die they go heaven.’ — That’s from…