Uplifted

Rise up on eagle’s wings! Rise up with the skill of Hermes as though this world’s troubles cannot anchor you beneath the ground! Rise up and may God be unburdened too from our grandstanding humanism! Rise up, for the incarnation did not come to trap God in...

The Soles of the Feet

May God shine the shoes of those who march today, so that the dust of the roads cannot cling to their soles and the weariness of walking has no hold upon their heels. May God sweep the streets before those who march today, until the white and gold lines shine to lead...

Rachel’s Tears

Rachel runs through Cairo, her covering and shoes long since discarded as she rushes from mosque to square to church to street, overwhelmed in the whirl of bloodshed and rage, eyes blurred by mourning. Her lament is heard beyond Egypt; she wails at the sight of each...

Rahab as a Model for Ministry

Articles on clergy burnout trend occasionally through social media, and a recent fascination has been Mark Love’s “Eleven Things You Might Not Understand About Your Minister,” a list of eleven insights that appear to reflect Love’s own...

Psalm 148

Let the broken moon shell, worn & weary in the breaking waves, disclose its silent testimony of God’s faithfulness: of the Delight that formed its microscopic life on the ocean’s floor; of the Strength that guarded its days and the Beauty that nurtured...

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