Ungodly

Jun 25, 2025 | faith, images of God, news

I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord; I will meditate on all your work. – Psalm 77:11a & 12a (NRSV)  There’s a problem with being made in the image of God: it’s easy to acquire a God complex.  “I have the divine right to…” “I hold the indisputable...

Many Miracles

Jun 8, 2025 | Pentecost, writing

The crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard [the disciples] speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? … [Yet] in our own languages we hear them speaking about...

Faith-in-Flesh

May 22, 2025 | faith, justice, news

Evil is well worth our anger, our outrage, our fury, our deep indignation. Violence too is a worthy recipient of our defensiveness, our horror, our disquiet, even our fear. To rage against the injustices of the world is an appropriate response of Christian faith. And...

Recognition

Apr 21, 2025 | faith

On that same day, two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus and talking with each other about all that had happened. While they were discussing these events, Jesus came and walked with them, but they didn’t recognize him. He asked what they were...

Before I Go through the Gate

Apr 10, 2025 | Lent

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. – Psalm 118:19 (NRSV)  I did not grow up in a “come forward” church. Our weekly worship did not include a routine in which people came from their seats to the front...

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