I have been thinking about blame. It is difficult not to because of how much it is part of the culture and language of politics. As the election cycle revs up and snarls toward its crescendo a year … [Read more...]
Fear
Before I went to seminary I worked in an acute care mental health unit of a community hospital. It was a magical place in some ways; a strange thing to say about a holding cell for suffering. What … [Read more...]
Good & Evil? Think Again.
In the Gospel of Matthew (that’s the New Testament of the Bible), it says:“From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of God has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by … [Read more...]
The Grass on the Other Side
I grew up with the expectation of leaving home. It was a foregone conclusion that when we graduated from high school (and that we would graduate from high school), we would leave the area to go to … [Read more...]
THE VOICE
We are all tugged at the ankles by those who see us as a means to an end – a mending, a feeding, a nurturing, a caressing. We are all surrounded by bad advice shouted at us by friends even as much … [Read more...]
Awakening the Voices of the Wounded Within
“We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (Carl Jung) “You do not have to be good… you only have to let the soft animal of your body love … [Read more...]
CHANGE
CHANGE For over a thousand years the Church has been a preservationist institution seeking to encase previous elements of its past - including architecture, worship, music, and doctrines - in the … [Read more...]
SECRETS!
Dear Subscribers, Followers, and Friends of subversivepreacher.org, I have secrets! Please don’t tell anyone because this is just between you and me, but very soon there will be an announcement … [Read more...]
The marriage of reason and imagination
THE RANT Among the 18th century artist Goya’s famous collection of prints, "Los Caprichos,” number 43 (of 80) is entitled, “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” It seems to be … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Digging deep
Like so many things it is easy to go along and look past or forget the assumptions upon which we operate. Most of the time we remain unaware of the deep soil of assumptions in which our life-styles … [Read more...]
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