Mar 16, 2020 | faith, lament, Lent, stories
I hear a voice I had not known: “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. In distress you called, and I rescued you. – Psalm 81:5b-7a (NRSV) I’ve never felt close to God in a personal buddy-buddy kind of way. It’s never been...
Mar 13, 2020 | images of God, justice
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.” So God created humankind … in the image of God. (Genesis 1:26-27, NRSV) I grew up on the formal liturgies and hymns of the Evangelical and Reformed tradition, with phrases like Thee and...
Mar 11, 2020 | discipleship, Lent
Remember the wonderful works God has done: the miracles, the judgments uttered, the word commanded, the covenant kept. – Psalm 105:5, 8 Two weeks into Lent, how are you doing? How are those Lenten practices that you planned to observe faithfully? The chocolate...
Mar 1, 2020 | justice, Lent
The LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.” – Genesis 2:16-17 (NRSV) When the new year dawned two months ago, my social media feed was filled with people...