A collage of musings that I posted on my Facebook page over the past 2 weeks. These particular ones belong together: For those who are wondering “Where is God in this pandemic?” God is in the physicians and healthcare workers who are pouring out everything they’ve got to save as many of us as possible. God is in the truck drivers and grocery store staff and pharmacy personnel who are making sure we have the essentials that we need during… Read more
March 28, 2020
Where is God in the Pandemic? ..and other musings.
March 28, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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March 27, 2020
You’re Gonna Die. Pro-tips for Death & Dying.
March 27, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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“Children! You’re gonna die! That’s right. You’re gonna die! You don’t think you’re gonna die! You can’t imagine dyin’ right now, but one of these days, they’re gonna take you out to the cemetery, drop you in a hole, throw dirt in your face, and go back to the church and eat potato salad!” Christian scholar Tony Campolo shares about a long-time tradition on at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, an African-American congregation in West Philadelphia. Every year, the high school… Read more
March 17, 2020
Being a Non-Anxious Presence in an Anxious Time.
March 17, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” The words are from Kurt Vonnegut, the art is that of a tagger on a hidden wall in Boulder, the city I used to live in. It aptly conveys the anxious end of an idyllic – though illusory – season in the lives of the white elite, including mine. This photo I took of it fits what I’m about to say. We in the West are facing something unlike most any of us under… Read more
March 8, 2020
This Isthmus of Isness – a poem about God.
March 8, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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No longer can I fake it No longer can I pretend No longer can I fool myself and others that when I say “God” I mean what they think I’m supposed to mean. No longer can I talk about a god six steps removed, as if God were the A-Team of attorneys, advertisers, and agents who write the contracts, book the guests, and place the products on Megatainment Tonight, where tinsel toothed theological celebrities talk about the forced formulas and… Read more
January 30, 2020
Authentically Christian. Getting real to help our Culture.
January 30, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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I recently had the honor to be a guest interviewed on the BiCurean Podcast. I had only learned of this greatly needed podcast in the past year. It is hosted by two people on a mission – a mission to help heal our broken culture and to inspire us toward a less polarized way of being and relating to one another in society. In their words: What is BiCurean? BiCurean takes typically combative topics and teaches them to play nice…. Read more
January 25, 2020
Ending the Civil War. Ways to Engage.
January 25, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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“They’re so wrong.” “They’re impossible.” “They’re never going to change their minds.” That’s a lot of they-ing and overstatement. And yet, I think that’s what we do – we write others off as beyond hope. All too frequently, I think we dismiss people who think differently than we do – patently, wholesale, and out of hand. We de-friend people on social media and reduce or avoid contact with co-workers, friends from our past, people at the gym, and even members… Read more
January 6, 2020
Preemptive Warfare is UnChristian.
January 6, 2020 By Roger Wolsey
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At the start of this new year, this last year of our current decade, President Trump ordered a drone airstrike to assassinate a high ranking military official of Iran, General Qassem Soleimani – the person largely responsible for the (near) end of ISIS. The assassination took place on Jan. 2, 2020. This action was the equivalent of a head of foreign nation ordering the killing of the Secretary of Defense of the USA. By any measure, an act of war -… Read more
December 19, 2019
Donald Trump is The Highlander?
December 19, 2019 By Roger Wolsey
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Donald Trump has a name. So do you. I’ve been participating in the “Photo-a-Day Challenge” where people are invited to post photos they’ve taken to social media that relate to the theme assigned for each day. Today is the 19th day of Advent and the word assigned is “Name.” We all have names and many of our names have meanings. Some contend that our names are actually part of our identity – that consciously or not – we often end… Read more
December 9, 2019
Can We Cancel Cancel Culture? Ways to Engage.
December 9, 2019 By Roger Wolsey
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“They’re so wrong.” “They’re impossible.” “They’re never going to change their minds.” That’s a lot of they-ing and overstatement. And yet, I think that’s what we do – we write others off as beyond hope. All too frequently, I think we dismiss people who think differently than we do – patently, wholesale, and out of hand. We de-friend people on social media and reduce or avoid contact with co-workers, friends from our past, people at the gym, and even members… Read more
November 18, 2019
Do you Gollumize? Making Idols of our Suffering.
November 18, 2019 By Roger Wolsey
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I’ve done it. There have been times when I’ve allowed my identity to become wrapped up in some trauma that happened to me or grief that I’ve experienced. I’ve allowed myself to view myself primarily as a victim. I’ve poo-pooed other people’s journeys of healing because I hadn’t experienced “sufficient” healing in my own life. In times of such felt personal brokenness, to use terms popularized by Fr. Richard Rohr, I “transmitted my un-transformed wounding” onto others. He says that:… Read more
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