Sep 30, 2016 | prayer, racism
Is it really so much trouble, O God, to respond to your people’s cries? Have you truly turned a deaf ear for centuries? Or can you not hear the mothers’ wailings over the sound of gunshots and bullhorns? Do you no longer care to notice the blatant...
Sep 25, 2016 | lament, prayer, racism, sermon
I have some not-so-polite things to pray today, God, starting with: You suck. . Also: You’re falling down on the job. . Where is your balm to the brokenhearted when pain is looped publicly on video for voyeurism and ratings? . Is there no more freedom your...
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...
Dec 16, 2015 | Advent, lament, prayer, racism
For the children who died by Herod’s word before they even learned to talk, O LORD, hear our prayer. For the boy who will not see his 13th birthday, O LORD, hear our prayer. For the girl who never got to hold up 8 fingers to show her age, O LORD, hear 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...
