Jun 30, 2014 | books, Monday Muse, scripture
God made people, because God loves stories. (The Talmud) So quotes Leila Berg as she begins the delightful storytelling of major and lesser-known and only-rumored Old Testament stories in The God Stories (Francis Lincoln Publishers 1999). She wants us to hear the...
Jun 27, 2014 | comfort, death, prayer
We were here. Now we are not. Even “here” is gone. What we have known as life Now we will know as history While tomorrow remains only hearsay We would set a stone if we could A marker to say, “Here was change” A memorial to acknowledge,...
Jun 23, 2014 | books, Monday Muse, sermon
It is an ecclesial crime to preach a thoughtless and irrelevant sermon. (65) So premises Gregory M. Howard, editor of the newly-released Voices Crying Out in the Wilderness: Contemporary Theologies of Preaching (BorderStone Press 2014). It is the first book on my...
Jun 20, 2014 | mystery, prayer
the wrinkled rhinoceros the stretch of clouds the red moon the next move in chess the juggler’s rhythm the touch screen and more: the fulfillment of God’s Kindom the final success of Love the tenacity of Hope but I am too familiar with the bitterness that...