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March 01, 2017
Ashes, Ashes
Last week I received several expressions of gratitude for making myself available to impose ashes...
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February 26, 2017
Overcome by Faith
Matthew 17:1-9 Transfiguration Early in my career I was responsible for planning and leading a...
February 21, 2017
Some Uncomfortable Words
Just last week I participated in a panel of guests discussing religion and advocacy in...
February 21, 2017
Praying in Dark Days
Having trouble finding the right words? Here's last Sunday's prayer prayed by Riverside's Minister of...
February 19, 2017
The Hardest Commandment
Matthew 5:38-48 This week the senior staff spent a day and a half in intensive...
February 13, 2017
Praying in Dark Days
The following is a pastoral prayer written and delivered in Sunday worship by my excellent...
February 12, 2017
Magical Thinking
Matthew 5:13-20 2017 is bound to be a tough year for folks who are superstitious. ...
February 07, 2017
Taking Jesus Seriously
If your church follows the Revised Common Lectionary you will know that in these weeks...
January 2017
January 29, 2017
Executive Order
Matthew 25:35-40 My name is Max Wolff. The US turned me away at...
January 24, 2017
Pink Hats, Posters, and The Choice We Make Now
I ran into someone the other day who had just returned from the women’s march...
January 22, 2017
Together
Exodus 1:8-20; Matthew 4:12-23 Here’s what I learned this week: sometimes being nasty is the same...
January 19, 2017
Dawn Is Breaking
Isaiah 49:1-7 I was trying to think where I was on this night eight years...
January 15, 2017
Brave
John 1:29-42 For these weeks on Sunday mornings we’re doing the work of worship: hoping...
January 14, 2017
The Work of Worship, Matthew 3:13-17
When they teach us to plan worship and preach in seminary one of the first...
January 10, 2017
Resolved
We’re just over a week in to the new year and based on my Facebook...
January 08, 2017
Beloved
Matthew 3:13-17 A few years ago I went to a wedding shower at which all...
December 2016
December 24, 2016
Again, A Meditation for Christmas Eve
(**This meditation was inspired by Bishop Will Willimon’s column Christmas: Herod in Trouble) Well, here...
December 18, 2016
As If…We Had the Courage to Go Somewhere New
Matthew 1:18–25 On December 8, just 10 days ago, Senator John Glenn died...
December 13, 2016
Welcoming an Atheist at Church
This piece was originally written in January 2014. Early in my pastoral work I found myself...
December 04, 2016
As If…We Believed the Prophets
Matthew 3:1-12 Every year during the third week of January, I like to repost on...
November 2016
November 29, 2016
The Election is Over. Stop the Silence.
Objectively speaking, there has been very little in the political world that one might call...
November 27, 2016
As If…We Were Paying Attention
Matthew 24:36-44 It’s known in church history circles as the Great Disappointment. Followers of Baptist...
November 20, 2016
What Will Save Us
Luke 1:68-79 I don’t know how it was at YOUR house on Thanksgiving Day, but...
November 16, 2016
Birthed
Below are some excerpts from the forward I wrote to Elizabeth Hagan's new book, Birthed....
November 15, 2016
Meeting in the Ladies’ Room
Amy Butler and Leslie Copeland-Tune Okay, ladies. Huddle up. We’re having this meeting in the...
November 13, 2016
What Will Destroy Us
Luke 21:5-19 1905 there was a very passionate young librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library...
November 10, 2016
Poetry Corner
Zero Circle Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will...
November 09, 2016
God Showed Up: A Meditation for the Day After
Today I walked into the building and got in an elevator with a group...
November 06, 2016
Reflections
All Saints' Day Ephesians 1:11-23 On Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of taking the...
November 01, 2016
We Have to Start Telling Our Truths
So here’s how last week went down for me. It actually all began almost two...
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