Sometime in the next year I will begin a major overhaul of the subversivepreacher website, which includes a redirection of writing focus. What I know in advance, is that the weekly newspaper column, … [Read more...]
How much of you is at the table?
Video version follows the text below Texts for Preaching From “Listening to your life” by Frederick Buechner If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea … [Read more...]
Crows
I love crows. I realize there are reasons not to, but for just a minute hover over these reasons to marvel at them. To judge the relative capacity of a species’s brain, it isn’t how big the gray … [Read more...]
You…your current, your life
This is a partial archive from 2004, but a still apt invitation for you to enter the current of your life. (There is no video version this week -- the preacher is taking a break) In the year 627 … [Read more...]
Yelling “Fire!” in a Theater
A Geneva police officer was upset when he thought a city counselor had scrawled unflattering words about police on the sidewalk, in chalk, in front of the Public Safety Building during a public … [Read more...]
Climate Change as a Metaphor for…
Just like we get tired of bad news from the news media, I’m sure you are like me and get tired of bad news from the Sunday lectionary readings. We’ve been getting a lot of it lately. The punch … [Read more...]
A Distorted Lens
People are not red or blue. I wrote about this back in 2016 but it seems even more important now. The FBI was granted a search warrant for a former President’s residence and that legal action is being … [Read more...]
Forget about worship…worry about where your treasure is instead
We should feel alarmed and threatened. Isaiah is telling us, with the voice of God on his lips no less, that formal, public worship should be eliminated. Luke is telling us, on the voice of … [Read more...]
Powerful Summer
My wife and oldest daughter are playing cribbage at the dinning room table with the dog napping in the corner nearby. My youngest daughter is poking away on her laptop while our two grandsons are … [Read more...]
Pushing the pause button – and alt/delete
As most of you know, I had a traumatic event in May. The surgery I had to fix my back was followed in three days by an emergency surgery to remove a blood clot on my spine. Like so many people … [Read more...]
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