Jul 18, 2014 | nature, news, psalm
We are pieces and parts, particles and bits, scattered like broken seashells and seagrass on a spread of beach sand; each life tossed, storied, too many discarded, disregarded and left to the gulls for picking. So often we miss — in our anxious living —...
Jun 16, 2014 | church, Monday Muse, news
On Friday, Christianity Today’s Leadership Journal gave a platform to an imprisoned former youth pastor who had emotionally and sexually abused an adolescent girl in his care, by publishing his anonymous article “From Youth Minister to Felon.” Also...
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 12, 2014 | justice, Monday Muse, news, worship
Monday morning, and I cannot put this thought to rest: we have consumed the names of the kidnapped Nigerian girls for the sake of our own piety. If Facebook is any indication, yesterday (Mother’s Day) many American churches prayed for the Nigerian girls and...
Mar 14, 2014 | Lent, news, prayer
239 vanished. Hundreds more waiting, wondering. O Lord, hear our prayers. Britney and Crystal. Beloved, found by the trash. O Lord, hear our prayers. Two collapsed. Bricks and mortar and lives. O Lord, hear our prayers. One on fire. Countless more burning in silence....
Oct 1, 2013 | lament, news, peace
It is easier to prepare for the advent of hell than to do the work of welcoming heaven. If the government shutdown (re)teaches us nothing else, it certainly demonstrates that we — humans in general, Americans in particular — find it easier, in fact more...
