What follows is a mediation sparked by the lectionary reading from Revelation 21:10,22-22:5 for this Sunday, Easter 6, Year C in the Revised Common Lectionary The dandelion has a tap root that goes three feet down, white and milky and strong–tear off the top and it will come back. It looks something like a lion’s [...]
The trees shimmer in an early evening wind that makes it difficult to see the small bird flitting to and fro, branch to branch. “There! That open twig,” I say. “I see it!” Emily exclaims, quickly taking the binoculars from me and adding blue-gray gnatcatcher to her beginners life list. This walk is a meditation. [...]
This Lectionary Reflection is cross-posted at the Ekklesia Project Easter 5, Year C John 13:31-35 She stood outside of the meeting room, a cigarette in hand–crying. This was a weekend spiritual retreat, a time of renewal, but for this woman it was clearly painful, even degrading. My wife approached the woman and asked what was [...]
A Sermon on John 20:19-31 In Dante’s Divine Comedy, after he’s followed Virgil through hell, after he’s climbed the seven story mountain of purgatory, watching penitents shed the remnants of each of the seven deadly sins as they climb, he arrives at the edge the garden of Eden on the top of the mountain. It’s [...]
“I’ll pray for you.” That can be a sentence of honest intent and care, but it can just easily be a power play, a kind of spiritual violence. I had a friend who was once struggling with faith, asking deep questions of it. Many who did not know him well, earnest evangelicals who hadn’t been [...]
I’ve been realizing that I’m a glutton. At least that’s the name for it that my Spiritual Director and I came to recently as I described how my ambitions toward discipline and self-control fall short, how I can’t let my wife buy graham crackers because some dark night I’ll eat them all. I’m a hungry [...]
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder. It doesn’t seem that long ago and that is partly because it took months for the media to actually catch on to the story and call attention to the atrocity it was. In remembering Trayvon Martin’s death as I move through Lent, this season of confession [...]
On Wednesdays and Fridays I am hungry, but it is on those days that I am closest to being satisfied. On the Wednesdays and Fridays of Lent I fast, following the ancient Christian tradition of abstaining from all caloric foods and drinks twice weekly. This was a tradition regained by the early Methodists with their [...]
Ash, you should know, is a great source of phosphorus and potassium—two members of the essential soil chemical triad of Nitrogen-Phosphorous-Potassium (N-P-K). We should remember this as we go into Ash Wednesday, a solemn day in which we meditate on our mortality and finitude. In thinking of our death we must also recognize that our [...]
I went for a long run today and it wasn’t easy. I can usually go ten miles at a pretty good pace without too much worry, but on today’s run my legs felt stiff and my heart rate was too high for the pace. I’m a bit out of running shape, but I don’t worry. [...]
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