After this post from the other day, I got some responses that seemed to say, “We’re glad you’re back!” But I’m not back. I haven’t returned the same man. Even though I sensed a strong recall of what I’m to be doing: inviting people to freedom, and once they’re there or on the way, to work to provide a community where this freedom is not jeopardized. And this, I’ve come to experience and know, is rare as hen’s teeth! You... Read more
I walk slowly into the church. I try to look confident. People look at me with a look of interest. Some smile, but behind the smiles I read curiosity. Immediately I discern I’m underdressed. I find a seat and sit down. I hope I haven’t unwittingly chosen a regular’s favorite perch. I sit by the aisle for a quick escape. All around me I can feel the weight of obligation. There isn’t anything overt. No slogans of oppression plastered on... Read more
I am a Rowan Atkinson fan. I thought I would share this with you. I think it is hilarious. Take a look see: Read more
In response to yesterday’s cartoon on How To Walk to Church, someone asked if I had a cartoon for how to walk away from church. Here is is: Read more
I went to a funeral yesterday. It was the mother of a woman in our congregation. She was a pastor’s wife. She spent years and years in ministry. The preacher, her son in law, tried to find out what her favorite verse was. He couldn’t find out from her because she said that they were all good. Finally, after she’d died, he found one verse written in the front of her bible. It was 1 Chronicles 28:20. It is a... Read more
I really don’t know what to say. I appreciate your comments, but we are still not seeing it. I’m still in a season of speechlessness. I’m at a place where I feel like my whole continent is shaking at the roots. The whole world is crashing in. The paradigm I have been comfortably operating in is imploding, and I can’t presently see where else to go. I am a man in a house that is fully ablaze. There is no... Read more
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