Summer Sabbatical 2026
Faith Lens is pausing its weekly article rhythm for the summer. However, be on the lookout for three new resources we hope will be useful: A pre-summer trip reflection to help prepare groups for a trip, released in June A...
May 17, 2026 – Look Up
Prepare: The Gospel of John has some of the most dense “theological language” of the Gospels. Not that the others aren’t also deeply engaged in God-talk (theo-logos → God-words → theology!), but the author of John goes to great lengths...
May 10, 2026 – Ordinary, Household Acts of Love
Prepare: The Gospel of John has a very different character than the other three Gospels (Mark, Matthew, and Luke, which are called “the Synoptic Gospels”). Whereas the Synoptic Gospels tell many similar stories about the life and ministry of Jesus,...
May 3, 2026 – Prepare a Place For You
Prepare: John 14 is a part of a longer section of John that Bible scholars call the farewell discourse. Jesus and his disciples are at the Last Supper. Jesus is trying to prepare them for life without him. We hear...
April 26, 2026 – Awe and Belonging
Prepare Each year in the Easter season, we venture into Acts, a book of the Bible I like to talk about as “Jesus is risen, now what?” And what we learn through Acts, about what it means to be people...