TEXT Did you ever know something – know it in your bones? What I mean is the kind of certainty deep down where we know such things. But then, you discovered it wasn’t true? Truth. Oh, how we … [Read more...]
Resisting Powerlessness
The sun arrived on Sunday with unrestrained radiance as the wet earth raised her arms to beg for more. The next morning, cold and gray again, small green buds everywhere had inched up from their … [Read more...]
Worried about where we go from here
A wise and poetic friend of mine recently observed that in these days of social distancing the background becomes the foreground. What she meant is that the things we took for granted, overlooked, and … [Read more...]
Babies with Guns
Protesters at the state capital in Columbus, Ohio I shared this experience before, but it is especially cogent now. One of those moments nearly every parent has experienced, is wedged in the creases … [Read more...]
Witness to Joy
On Easter an international virtual choir and orchestra of 600 members performed, “The Strife is O’er, the Battle Won”: As I watched the little thumbnail images of their faces singing and … [Read more...]
Don’t Neglect Your Superpower
Under a cloudless sky awash with the intensity of unobstructed early morning sun, my joyous relief from days of low clouds and gray was immediately twisted into snarling grumpiness. At the end of Long … [Read more...]
Naming the stranger at the table
I suddenly recognized a face I couldn’t quite put my finger on (this is a metaphor, by the way). My congregation has been having a Sunday morning coffee hour via Zoom, and this past week someone … [Read more...]
Power
It was an early morning COVID-world walk, just me and my six-year old dog with terminal puppiness. The aim was to relieve her bodily needs and empty my log-jammed mind. Coming from the railroad … [Read more...]
A Brief Case for the Tree to Replace the Cross as our Symbol of Christianity
Some Observations in the Time of Pandemic
Here we are in a strange warp, suddenly hyper-aware of how connected we are at the very moment we have been driven into isolation. To those of us who gather around the prophet Jesus and the example of … [Read more...]
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