Jun 24, 2016 | confession, lament, news, racism
Though we pressed our bibles to your hands and promised you life in the deep chilly river we never meant to love you and prayed Christ would forgive you for not being like us, not even at the threat of death. Though we survived by your blood and thrived on your...
Feb 24, 2016 | confession, Lent, news, prayer, racism
Too long, O LORD, too long! Too long have we covered our ears and hidden our eyes and turned our backs on the world’s hunger for a harvest rich with love & universal kinship. Too long have we preferred the slim pickings of “I got mine,” the weeds...
Nov 15, 2015 | communion, lament, news, prayer
In prayer we draw close to you, O God, like an infant clinging to its mother’s breast, like a child holding tight to a teacher’s hand. In prayer we dare to make a spectacle of ourselves, pouring out our fears and doubts and heartaches, laying bare our...
Aug 21, 2015 | justice, news, prayer, racism
You are a very particular kind of God: gathering in the freedom of abandoned houses that police come to prowl with guns drawn, cursing in protest through midnight streets while teargas clouds the neighborhood air. You are a very particular kind of God: filling with a...
Jun 19, 2015 | hope, love, news
Let me look at you, hold your face in my hands. There you are — the light of God is in your eyes, the beauty of the Word Made Flesh is in your flesh. What a gift you are and what a grace to let me love you — just the brokenness of my heart and of yours...
Jun 18, 2015 | justice, news, prayer, racism, theodicy
I will not cry out to God today who is otherwise occupied in the corner nursing his shame. God knows he has failed and I will not assuage his guilt with prayers, although we might eavesdrop on the Holy One muttering to his triune self: “We didn’t...
