Throughout Lent, I will be posting short meditations on the Daily Office readings every day. Please journey and pray with me through these readings. To read previous Lenten meditations click here. Monday, February 27 I Corinthians 1:11-13 “For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters. What I mean is that each of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Cephas,’... Read more
Throughout Lent, I will be posting short meditations on the Daily Office readings every day. Please journey and pray with me through these readings. To read previous Lenten meditations click here. Saturday, February 25 Philippians 4:12-13 “I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances, I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need: I can... Read more
Throughout Lent, I will be posting short meditations on the Daily Office readings every day. Please journey and pray with me through these readings. To read previous Lenten meditations click here. Friday, February 24 Philippians 4:5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. In his letter to the Philippians, one of Paul’s instructions to the church is jarring in its simplicity and unexpectedness and it is one of the few in the entire letter that directly addresses how the church... Read more
Throughout Lent, I will be posting short meditations on the Daily Office readings every day. Please journey and pray with me through these readings. Thursday, February 23 Habakkuk 3:1-18 In Habakkuk, the prophet paints a terrifyingly vivid image of the anger of God. In our world, we too often want to imagine a God whose puppy love warms us when we are cold and massages our tired limbs after a long day. Ours is a day-spa God sent to comfort... Read more
Throughout Lent, I will be posting short meditations on the Daily Office readings every day. Read Thursday’s reflection here. Please journey and pray with me through these readings. Wednesday, February 22 Amos 5:6-15 “… you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain … and push aside the needy at the gate.” The prophet Amos levels a harsh critique against the nation of Israel. The country had become enamored with its own success. The wealthy rulers and... Read more
A Poem for Sundays there is a place beyond belief, where faith is true and false this promised land I incarnate god and god incarnates me, and together with the incarnations of humanity, we seek to find, create to destroy, this Jehovah, this God, this Christ. in the land of milk and honey, curdled sweet. a river of creeds runs over rocks drowning, quenching deserted throats. the wrath of god entombed in its violent weight the love of god kneeling... Read more
This is the third part in an ongoing series of retellings of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Read Part 1: The God Samaritan and Part 2: The Wrong Samaritan. The preacher had chosen a rather appropriate text this morning, the lawmaker thought, seeing how fruits and vegetables growing on farms across the state were rotting in the fields rather than being picked. “The harvest is plentiful, but the farmworkers are few; therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out... Read more
For many Christians, evolution is a synonym for atheism. The notion that life evolved slowly over millions of years through natural selection rather than spontaneously erupting from the hand of God has largely destabilized the traditional understanding of the natural order as presented in the creation myths of Genesis. For a number of Christians, evolution kills any possibility of a magnificent Creator who formed the cosmos from the void, the Artist who paints the horizons with wondrous sunsets, the Potter... Read more
Of all the women who most embody the fight for equality within Christianity for gender equality in the pulpit, one of the most important and fascinating examples might also be one you have never heard about. Her name was Jarena Lee, and she was an African American preacher from the early 1800s, long before Pentecostalism’s Aimee Semple McPherson blazed trails or Methodists allowed (and then rescinded) women’s right to preach in the at the turn of the 20th century. And... Read more
This is a response to Rachel Held Evans’ request for men to write about the women, femininity and the Church. When I became a stay-at-home father several years ago, I slowly realized that all the theology I had studied in seminary, if I were honest, didn’t connect with my new reality of diapers, spit-up and frozen breast milk. The liberation theology, the ontology, the epistemology — all the ologies of ologies — rarely intersected with how I lived my life.... Read more
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