Jesus won’t stay in institutional boxes, and he won’t put them on anyone else, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

Jesus’ parable of the dishonest steward stands out in Luke’s gospel. The never-ending wheeling-and-dealing shenanigans of dishonest managers sound like the laments we hear in old Jimmie Rodgers’ tunes, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

God gives the freewill to make bad choices, but still counsels against our stubbornness, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

Jesus wants people to understand fully that following his teachings will lead inevitably to conflict with the world’s values, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

The Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant looks at how Jesus’ prayers in the gospels describe him and his followers.

Dump the stuff – physical or not – that keeps us from serving Jesus, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

The Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant finds the concept of a Three-in-One God to be a relic of theology created for control, not from spiritual reality.

We’ll be better off if we recognize that our anxieties are a normal human response to danger, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.

The time for United Methodist bishops’ “walking alongside” LGBTQ United Methodists is over, writes the Rev. Richard Lowell Bryant.