At great risk of an empty table for TheoEd today, the topic is “The Bible as Poetry.” I say that because poetry – like Jazz and classical music – has an infinitesimal audience of about 3% of … [Read more...]
Art of Dying – And Living
George Harrison of Beatles fame, wrote a song called, “Art of Dying. In it he describes death as life's greatest opportunity. Most of us don’t think of death as an opportunity, rather, as some … [Read more...]
From 15 Minutes to 500 Words
If you read the subversivepreacher posts of Sunday sermons, this will sound familiar. It is last Sunday's sermon reduced like a flavorful sauce into a five-hundred word column for the … [Read more...]
Eschatology or the Theology of Framing
Okay, this is about eschatology. Yep, I knew that would move you to the edge of your chair! So, we are sitting between Isaiah and Jesus this morning, and it is like pulling at both ends of a … [Read more...]
A Data-Driven Theology
“I know that my redeemer lives.” That line in Job seems pretty clear and it forms the heart of the anthem that begins the Episcopal burial liturgy. Clearly the Lectionary Committee that … [Read more...]
All Saints’ and Then Some
I read those dog-eared and familiar old words from the Gospel of Luke and started laughing. As if my preacher-life was passing before my eyes, thirty-nine years of varied and contradictory … [Read more...]
Wisdom v. Reaction
I am going to zero in on something I almost never talk about. See if you can figure out what it is before I get there. When I read that poem, “Hitchhiker” a dozen contradictory … [Read more...]
Get Ready to Rumble…with God!
Today, once again, the gospel reveals the uncomfortable dinner table argument between a radical first century Palestinian peasant and the well-educated upper class Westernized Christianity that … [Read more...]
Knowing
Creed. Belief. Faith. Creed comes directly from the Latin word, Credo. Credo, in Latin, means literally, “I believe.” So any time we say an affirmation of faith like the Nicene or Apostle’s … [Read more...]
Hope: Work For It
This is about hope. It is about hope in hard times when hope is hard work even for people who are by nature optimistic. It begins with a man and a story we might imagine has absolutely … [Read more...]
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