True! You questioned authority when it didn’t make sense. Oh s&#t! You allowed doubts about lame ideas to creep in. Oh s&#t! You let the truth of what you really thought come out of your mouth. Oh s&#t! You decided to not go with the ridiculous flow anymore. Oh s&#t! You made the courageous choice to jump off one lilly pad before you saw the other. Oh s&#t! You determined that losing your soul was more disastrous than losing the... Read more
The other day someone sent me a photograph of clouds shaped like what was supposed to be God’s head. It was meant to be a miraculous manifestation that God is watching out for us. Has it come to this? So I dug up one of my older cartoons. It might encourage you to know that Jesus and Mary are still talking. I hope it makes you smile, at least. Get my book full of cartoons like this one from amazon.com,... Read more
We are already one. Unity is something we have. The walls that divided us no longer exist. Unless we build new ones. Unity is something that we acknowledge, embrace and maintain. And we have to start somewhere. Buy a print of this cartoon. Or, Go here to buy a poster of this cartoon, as well as other products. Read more
You’d think the way things are going that the idea of all things being reconciled has been an epic fail. Like the rapid curing of concrete, theological positions are hardening. Jesus would seem to have changed. What I’ve noticed is that it really doesn’t matter what you believe. What matters is that you are cool, confident and cocky. You can even be an extremist in your conservatism. People will follow you. Even into the abyss. Rachel Held Evans has an... Read more
I posted my new Sophia painting the other day titled “Blast”, but I decided that it wasn’t really complete. I added more detail and lifted some paint from her body. There! That’s more like it. Sometimes we must walk through spiritual winters where there is very little comfort, if any. All has turned cold. What once was so alive now seems dead. Everything is blanketed by a mysterious chill. There is far more darkness than light. We shiver. Another warm... Read more
I had this picture in a dream I had a while ago after I read a modern theology book. It was disappointing because the author just spit out one formulaic theological cliché after another. There wasn’t one original thought. It was like a cheap gum ball machine. I don’t like gum. Why is it that when we fall into a theological position we fall in love with it and totally lose ourselves in it? From then on all our thoughts... Read more
Once a movement crystalizes into an institution the radicalness of the movement’s founder is discouraged. Most founders do not mean to reform or dismantle one institution only to establish another. Their task is to question authority, to deconstruct the powers and to confront government. When preachers say, “Be like Jesus!” they usually don’t mean this one. The morale is: Question authority, even if it hurts. Buy a print of this cartoon. Own the original drawing. Get the my book full... Read more
I got up early today as the sun was rising. I made a cup of coffee and sat on my back deck smoking my pipe as I watched the warm sun rise above the trees. It was an absolutely beautiful morning. The birds were chirping. A neighbor’s rooster was crowing. Crows were gliding overhead calling in a way that sounded like laughter. They seemed happy. A butterfly flittered past. Suddenly I started weeping. Uncontrollably. It wasn’t sad, but deeply joyful.... Read more
Those who are just so certain and push their certainty upon others… I often wonder what kind of a bubble they’re living in. But then all I have to do is observe myself. All the motions of spirit have moved within me. We are all guilty of presumption, the desire to be irrefutable, the fear of the soon to come unknown. But even though, on the one hand, it is a terrible journey, it is on the other a terribly... Read more
I’m quite attached to Sophia, as I know many of you also are. She surely represents my soul. She is courageous, vulnerable and independent. She continues on her journey to learn how to be true to herself before she can commit again. She is wonderful. I admire her. Especially her tenacity. But she also needs to sleep: It is drawn with pen and ink, watercolor and graphite pencil on Arches 300 lb hotpress acid free paper, measuring 8″x10″ (20cm x... Read more
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