Jul 28, 2014 | books, Monday Muse, review
There is a universal urgency for both personal and social stability. … [There are] deep strains and stresses in the soul of a people, for which they had no preparation and from which there seems to be no sure basis for recovery. (4) So observes Howard...
Jul 21, 2014 | books, Monday Muse, review
As protest movements multiply and the global economy lurches from crisis to crisis … it seems that we actually need the pirate spirit of Roberts, Teach and Fly to rise strongly again and come to our aid. (37-38) Mutiny! Why We Love Pirates and How They Can Save Us may...
Jul 14, 2014 | books, church, ministry, Monday Muse, racism, review
We need each other’s voices. We do not need numbers. We do not need quotas. We do not even need goals or standards. We need each other. We need each other’s experiences. We need each other’s dreams. We need each other’s stories. (64-65) The...
Jul 7, 2014 | books, Monday Muse
“Mary Poppins,” Jane said, looking very hard at her, “were you at the Zoo last night?” “Certainly not — the idea!” said Mary Poppins. “And I’ll thank you to eat up your porridge and no nonsense.” The delight...
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 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...
