In today’s Boston Globe, columnist Alex Beam has a short piece on his frustrations with people’s need to mold Jesus into their own image, in particular focusing on another recent book (in a slew of many) claiming that Jesus was married. He writes: “The purpose, animated by the all-powerful secularism Read more…
“Brown’s mother, screamed and sobbed.” While it was not Mike Brown’s mother, I can still hear those screams and sobs, the pain that comes from some unknown place in the soul. It is a grief that is unfamiliar to most white people, and a grief that an ER physician friend Read more…
“How would it feel to know that God likes me?” That was the question staring at me this morning. As often as I can, I start my mornings with a devotion and journaling from Richard Rohr’s On The Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men. Fr.Richard has been a rabbi Read more…
Part II: The Priesthood of all Corporations and Investors? This is part two of a series about a theology of corporate identity and behavior, part one can be found here. A couple months back NPR was running a series on technical lingo in professions, and there were some great ones Read more…
Last week’s Hobby Lobby v. Burwell decision in favor of further protection of large groupings of people, most specifically corporations and unions, under the first amendment has raised a great deal of animosity towards the question of treating corporations as a “person” under the law. There has been a great Read more…
Ordinary 12, Year C (Luke 12:32-40) Grace to you, and peace to you, from our Lord Jesus, who is the Messiah. Creation What a week to preach on parables on thieves, slaves, masters, and wedding banquets! This morning, we are hearing about destruction, thieves, and unexpected break-ins, and the anxiety Read more…
“We believe You are still alive making all things new” – Taylor Wilson, “All Things New” _______________ Tomorrow marks ten years since my mom passed into the care of God, and it also marks a strange point in this journey of my own. It means that my life has seen Read more…
“We get wet and we corrode and now we’re covered up in rust We drink and we dry up and now we crumble into dust” – The Holy Steady, “Stuck Between Stations” Yesterday I (re)learned two facts about life: The Hold Steady are a true American treasure Ash Wednesday in Read more…
In this season of Advent, we followers of Jesus spend a great deal time talking about distances. From the bright stars far up in the sky to God coming down from on high to low. From wise men coming from east to west to the travels of Mary and Joseph Read more…
I hear you, you the rambunctious Grinch of Advent’s past. I really do. I know that it has become commonplace amongst “serious” Christians of the liberal and conservative varieties to bemoan the loss of Advent and the “tone” of Advent that is far too close to Christmas already. What, with Read more…