Aug 2, 2015 | lament, prayer
O God our God, what can we possibly say? We are alternately hopeless and joyous, weary and renewed. Our spirits sag under the endless onslaught of chaos, of discord, of violence, of dehumanization. Our spirits are depleted too by their own betraying habits of...
Jul 24, 2015 | lament, psalm
I tell you: there is no God for this world will march to its own dying end without care or comfort, and most of all, without repentance for its sins. If there were a God we would not be allowed to live without one — so callously, so brazenly. Otherwise who...
Jul 19, 2015 | lament, prayer
As we settle into prayer, O Indwelling God, settle into us; make of us one people, one holy home, one sacred altar at which the prayers of the world are laid and by which the Spirit of the LORD pours out its healing. Draw us near to you by drawing us near to one...
May 8, 2015 | lament, psalm, theodicy, writing
“God has declared victory! God has remembered God’s faithfulness! All the ends of the earth have seen God’s triumph!” so the psalmist says but apparently I missed it — perfect and indicative though it may have been. Already victorious, O...
Apr 29, 2015 | confession, Jesus, justice, lament, racism
Two weeks ago, I led a conversation on race and faith, inviting participants to reflect on their experiences of race & ethnicity as well as on the ways that their church upbringings had (or hadn’t) equipped them to respond to racism. “Jesus loves the...
Apr 2, 2015 | death, Jesus, lament, Lent, prayer
Where to begin? You are more than I can handle, O Christ, and beyond my efforts of comprehension; this I acknowledge as I sit with you at the table as I wait with you in the deepening shadows as I try pathetically to offer you an anointing. What to say? You are my...
