Sep 15, 2014 | communion, justice, lament, liturgy, Monday Muse, racism
World Communion Sunday (October 5th this year) is an annual ecumenical celebration in some mainline American denominations, originating from a time in history when the spirit of ecumenism in American Christianity was high and global concern was heightened by the World...
Aug 17, 2014 | church, lament, news, theodicy
Weep, o church, for God has been shot in the streets. O God, we have sinned against you in thought, in word, and in deed. Hang your head, o church, for failing to attend God’s wake. We have left undone everything that we ought to have done. Cry out and gnash...
Jun 7, 2014 | justice, lament, psalm
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not on your record? Counting and mourning: 1. Still Trayvon. 2. Still Marco. 3. Still Normandy, Iraq, Rwanda, and Nigeria. I add my tears to God’s. 4. The spirit-breaking body-loathing...
May 30, 2014 | justice, lament, poem
What Maya Angelou and many other elders of Womanism taught (teach) me: Do not advise faith and call it “life.” Do not share God and call it “food.” Do not preach compliance and say it is “love.” Do not shout the good news of peace...
May 16, 2014 | lament, news, prayer
One: Hear the world, O God. Uncover your ears and know your people’s anguish. Many: Do not hide yourself from the cries for relief, from the noises of war. One: The world is distraught, O God. People and nations live in fear, and creation echoes their trembling....
May 6, 2014 | lament, psalm
Heartbroken to sing the chorus once so familiar now forgotten, foreign, forced from the tongue across the lips as though without understanding and indeed I no longer understand what I used to love but still I carry on because they expect this song this dance this act...
