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The Comfortable Words is a space to slow down and allow the words and way of Jesus to comfort us, strengthen us, and reorient us to the care and keeping of Christ. The phrase comes from Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. Cranmer's "comfortable" didn't mean cozy or comfy — it comes from the Latin confortare, meaning "with strength." These are words meant to give fortitude in uncomfortable times. Each episode offers a reflection on words spoken by Christ or about him, with room to be still. More at pickerill.casa
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Average audio length:
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English
United States
15 episodes
since July 13, 2026
episodic
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Comfortably numb, or uncomfortably awake.We are not just anxious anymore. We have gone numb, and we have pulled back. Seventy-two percent of Americans say bad news no longer shocks them. Nearly half withdrew from other people this year. The world hands us that numbness and calls it peace.Jesus does…
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Not far to fall.Julia found an essay she started writing years ago and never finished, so she finished it now. "Let's just say my view from the front porch has changed quite a bit."It begins with growth, the thing everything is supposed to do: babies, wealth, cities, followers, even faith. "Healthy…
Child, you are mine.Julia writes about the small sounds of an early morning — coffee, a dog snoring, a phone buzzing with messages from people she loves — and how they witness that she is not alone. From there she sits with Isaiah's words, "I have summoned you by name. You're mine," and what it mea…
On Detergency — or, an ode to the humble power washer.Julia power washed her house this week, and watched years of grime disappear in a single pass of soap and water. It got her thinking about detergency, the actual word for how soap works, and about Peter, washed by Jesus at the table the night be…
Jesus arrives four days late to his friend's grave, and the first thing he feels isn't grief, but anger.Julia sits with John 11 and the questions underneath it: what do you do when God doesn't show up on your timetable? Most of us have prayed Mary's prayer in some form. If only you had been here.Th…
The Smithsonian holds 155 million objects. About one percent is ever on view. Eric has spent this year inside a folder like that: his mother-in-law's portfolio of passports, birth certificates, and a wartime escape from Lithuania that nobody in the family talked about, until a citizenship law made …
Julia reflects on Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds (Matthew 13:24-30), sown together in the same field and left to grow until the harvest. Rather than reading the weeds as other people, she turns the parable inward: the roots of pride, discord, and fear are tangled with her own faithfulnes…
Julia reflects on Jesus' words to his disciples on the night before his death: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love" (John 15:9). She distinguishes discomfort — the ache of a comfort once known and now lost — from ordinary unease, tracing it through loss, betrayal…
Eric reflects on Jesus' cry from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46), and discovers it isn't a line Jesus composed himself, but the opening words of Psalm 22. Drawing on a UK pastor who leads prisoners in writing their own psalms, the viral footage of a dementia p…
Julia turns to the Garden of Gethsemane and the most uncomfortable hours of Jesus' life, where comfort shows up in an entirely upside-down way. Drawing on Mark's Gospel and W. H. Vanstone's The Stature of Waiting, she traces how Jesus moves from actor to the one "handed over" — the God who need not…
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