I’m sorry I haven’t written much lately. Some tell me that I should just stick to cartoons anyway. But once in a while I feel the need to write, as if the exercise exorcises my demons. I haven’t written lately because there’s lots happening in the lives of the people of the community I pastor. It is heartbreaking stuff. Our lives are filled with tribulation and transgression, and it gets exhausting sometimes serving one another in this kind of context.... Read more

I want to consider our supplemental Jesus. Most of our writing and talking is supplemental in nature. We get so excited with and carried away by the next new idea, the next new leader, the next new book, the next new method. But there is really nothing truly new about it all. They are accruals upon the past. They are installments on a faulty loan. They are renovations on a condemned building. It is our attempt to stretch an already... Read more

sorry feeders… typo in my latest cartoon. fixed. Read more

The problem with grace is that you can’t control it. You can’t control the effects of it either. The results can be disastrous in a community context. In a milieu of grace where we can literally get away with murder, people get murdered. In a context of grace where we can safely admit our weaknesses and sins, weaknesses and sins abound. Because that’s the way we are bent. Which lead to the Roman heresy of concluding since grace abounds where... Read more