Jun 29, 2025 | love, thanksgiving
It’s amazing that we survive death. So much of life should kill us – heartache, grief, vulnerability, fatigue; even birth should destroy us with pain yet it doesn’t, and here we are. Our hearts break, but no matter: we wake every morning. Loss takes...
Apr 7, 2025 | communion, hope, Jesus, justice, Lent, love, mystery, resurrection, scripture
Abimelech, son of Gideon and of the enslaved woman from the Bent Place (where Joseph was buried), suggested to his mother’s people that they might support his campaign to be king. His mother’s people proposed this idea to the landholders of the Bent Place,...
Aug 8, 2024 | lament, love, news
13,000. That’s how many Palestinian children have been killed in Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas, as estimated by UNICEF this spring. 1,195,070. That’s how many deaths in the U.S. have been attributed to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic,...
Jun 30, 2024 | love, relationships
David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan: “How the mighty have fallen! You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, anointed with oil no more.” – 2...
Feb 13, 2024 | images of God, love, relationships
How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful! Your hair is like goats along the hills; your teeth are like shorn ewes that have been washed; your lips are like a crimson thread—so lovely; your cheeks are like pomegranate halves. (Song of Songs 4:1-3, abridged)...
