Zac Koons, Author at The Living Church

Do the Poor Really Need Us?

The Living Word Plus Zac Koons - September 1, 2024

I wonder what you did the last time you won the panhandler-at-a-stoplight lottery. What tends to be your response? You’re the first car in...

From the Archives: A Blind Man’s Pentecost

Covenant Zac Koons - May 24, 2024

As this week after the Pentecost draws to its close, I present a final archival reflection on the Holy Spirit, this one from Zac...

A Bronze Serpent Processional Cross

Covenant Zac Koons - March 11, 2024

Yes, that’s a snake. A bronze serpent, actually — you know the story — set aloft on steel, which serves as the new Lenten...

The Christmas Story in Stone—the Nativity Façade of the Sagrada Familia

Covenant Zac Koons - December 27, 2020

Antoni Gaudi’s dream was to create a Bible out of stone, a dream that became—actually, is still becoming—the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, the...

The Advent Gospel of the Chicago Cubs

Covenant Zac Koons - December 2, 2020

By Zac Koons Allow me to refresh your memory: It’s 2016, game seven of the World Series, bottom of the tenth inning. There are two...

Five Suggestions for Reopening Your Church

Church Life Zac Koons - June 2, 2020

By Zac Koons It is a fascinating time to be planning worship. We have no pandemic playbook. We have been forced instead into improv...

The Pass the Peace Project

Church Life Zac Koons - April 1, 2020

We need peace now more than ever, and we shouldn’t let our inability to gather in person keep us from passing it back and forth.

Approaching the End

Covenant Zac Koons - February 9, 2020

This week’s readings for the Good Book Club’s journey through John’s Gospel move us ever-closer to the Gospel’s climax, and the end of Jesus’s earthly life and ministry.

God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag

Books & Culture Zac Koons - December 3, 2019

Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.

A Blind Man’s Pentecost

Books & Culture Zac Koons - June 10, 2019

How do we see God in a world where we no longer see Jesus?

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