Dear White Jesus

I cannot sit at your clean white feet waiting for the blue skies of eternity while there is white-induced hell on earth. I cannot pray to your sweet white face or repeat your white savior fairytales that twist hope with capitalism and manifest destiny. I cannot preach...

Goodbyes

If You really must go let me at least say it’s made a difference knowing You walking with You learning from You, so thank You for that. It’s meant the world to me but more than that — You’ve changed me with Your generosity of time, of...

Advent: Goodbye

Still I wait. Still I listen. Still there is only disappointment. We have waited. We have hoped. Perhaps now at long last God will answer the generations who have cried. Perhaps. But here — here is a shoulder for comfort until God comes. Unless God doesn’t...

What Will Destroy Us?

Ahab will come armed with scripture and swords and prophets to say ‘you are wrong’ to say ‘your life is anathema to mine’ to say ‘it is my god-given task to make your life hell’ and he’s right — not that he must make...

Without You

There must be you. There has to be you. Without you, how will I sleep at night? How will I rest if not in the knowledge that you are there — beside, behind, before, long ago and forever? Without you, how will I laugh in the storm? Only the impossibility of you...

Disbelief

It does not matter, not now or in the end, whether God means us well or ill, For what wrath could God rain that we have not already poured on one another? And what good could God wrest from the clutches of the few to bless the many? Let the Savior spare Himself from...

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