Apr 29, 2012 | justice, scripture, sermon
There was a man (in Acts 3, just prior to today’s reading from Acts 4:5-12),a man whose legs had been lame from his birth.Every afternoon during the hour of prayer,his friends would carry him to the entrance of the templeso that he could ask for almsas people...
Apr 27, 2012 | Bible, lament, peace, prayer
I would do well to learn from those who have sought you in the night:Jacob, wide awake on that stone pillow;Nicodemus, restless with questions;Solomon, weighing wealth and wisdom;Pharaoh’s baker, his head full of nightmares;the weary Hebrews, following that...
Apr 21, 2012 | prayer, theodicy
What else can I possibly do, if God chooses to hide his face from me, except wait? Be here … and wait. Wait for God’s mind to change. Wait for God’s face to turn. Wait, not in despair but with hopeful certainty that God will make his way around to me...
Apr 18, 2012 | church, news
“The American Church has been neglecting its role as an active storyteller of the American Dream story, as a prophetic minstrel transforming the American ‘Kingdom of God’ — not merely opining from the right or the left on moral concerns, not...