Book of Luke
24 chapters, 1,151 verses, in the World English Bible.
Chapters
Reflections on Luke

The letter looked like junk mail. It erased her $16,000 debt.
Churches are buying medical debt for about a penny on the dollar and burning it. The market said it was worth almost nothing. One mother paid on it for years.

When a crucifix kills a priest, everyone wants a verdict
A crucifix killed Fr. Patricio Sánchez during a livestreamed Mass in Ecuador. Jesus was once asked about eighteen people a tower killed, and what they had done to deserve it.

Robert Pether came home from Iraq because his wife kept asking
He thanked her, then refused to call his homecoming justice.

A mother read every page, and the room wanted to move on
Sophie Rottenberg, 29, confided in ChatGPT before she died. Asked about her, a publicist wanted the future. Jesus told a story that does the math the other way.

He asked to be locked out. The app offered a trading break.
After bankruptcy, Thomas shut himself out of sportsbooks. A $20 bonus on a new app cost him $25,000. Jesus has a word for the seller, and another for him.
Americans stopped having people over. Jesus had already rewritten the guest list.
The open door is closing for ordinary reasons: time, effort, screens. Jesus once told a host what was wrong with his guest list: everyone on it could pay him back.

Alabama freed Ervin Harris after forty-two stolen years
He was nineteen when one witness picked him out. He is seventy-one now, cleared at last, and the forty-two years are not coming back.

A court made lighting a candle for the dead a crime
A Hong Kong court has criminalized the last public mourning of Tiananmen's dead. A government that must outlaw a candle has told you what it is afraid of.

A boy walked at fifteen on a medicine made only for him
Fifteen years and never a step of his own. Then a therapy built for his single mutation, and the boy walked.

Executives Bought a Story That Let Them Stop Counting Workers
A July 2026 KPMG survey found leaders blindsided by AI bills. The half-built tower was never a budgeting error. It was a shortcut nobody checked.
What the Charts Confess
A six-decade study of pop lyrics finds care and decency fading, harm and contempt rising. The charts may be telling us less about music than about ourselves.

Who Was Their Neighbor?
A new study finds American conservatives are dying younger than liberals. The reasons are partly about trust, and partly about who never had a doctor to begin with.