https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAWAnJOnRI For those who live in the United States, may you have a blessed and extended holiday weekend. For those of you who do not live here, I beg your … [Read more...]
An Uncharacteristic Wednesday Rant from subversivepreacher: Individualism is an idea that effectively destroys spirituality
We were taught not only what it means to be a Buddhist, Christian, or Muslim, but also a particular brand within that religion such as Roman Catholic, Sunni or Mahayana. With a specific set of … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Small act of subversive imagination
I want to engage in a small act of subversive imagination. I hope you will play along. Let’s imagine that we did away with social barriers. Let’s just imagine no dress codes, no private clubs, no … [Read more...]
A Friday Rant (in place of Prep for Preachers & Hearers)
“It doesn’t happen in other places with the same kind of frequency, and it is in our power to do something about it.” President Obama about the shootings at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: The rotten spot in Christian theology
A Rotten Spot in Christian Theology I have been invited to a conversation regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I do not know the intent of the person who asked me to talk about … [Read more...]
What do you do when you meet a giant?
One generation grew up believing in the Lone Ranger and that one person could change the world, while a newer generation grew up knowing that a couple of people could blow up the center of American … [Read more...]
Playing Cute with God, a reflection on “The Journey” by Mary Oliver
Link to Journey: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/356684-the-journey-one-day-you-finally-knew-what-you-had It is true you know, the only life you can save is your own. Maybe it is because of what … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Carbon-loading
Here I sit in a wooden Adirondack rocker (a pretense of hominess) in the Baltimore airport, tethered by cord to a fresh supply of electricity my phone and computer are nursing. I am doing all this … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: A Prayer for Extroverts
A prayer on behalf of those who speak to listen (Extroverts) Beloved God of many voices act kindly toward my incessant chatter, those squealing disharmonies hideously slithering from within … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Loving Judas
Archive Rant Adapted from a presentation delivered to a 12-Step Worship in 2012 “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (C … [Read more...]
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