A video version follows the text Can I just say that preaching isn’t as easy as it looks. I know it is not really a job for a grown man or woman, but it’s all I know. And once in awhile I just … [Read more...]
Good Friday: Stories are filters for making sense
When someone dies we need to make sense out of it. When it is George Floyd or Martin Luther King, Jr. or Bobby Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln, or a refugee child washing up on the shore with the … [Read more...]
A Harvest Metaphor
A friend shared with me an image that won’t stop fluttering in my thoughts. Sometimes that is not such a good thing, but in this case it is a pleasure. Picture if you will, an intensely blue autumn … [Read more...]
Preserving Social Stratification
There is nothing like an old cemetery for perspective. It is the same in nearly any cemetery. In Buffalo’s vaunted Forest Lawn, a president, a prince and princess, R&B icon Rick James, robber … [Read more...]
The Lost Opportunities of Empty Rituals
This post was originally published by The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as part of the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. That is the central motif of … [Read more...]
What is best for us may not be best for those we leave behind
This post first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times series, (New York) … [Read more...]
Denim Spirit: Death and Gratitude
http://subversivepreacher.org/denim-spirit-death-and-gratitude/ In dim light and thick air, when heavy emotions wet the atmosphere as life leaves the human body, there is an exquisite holiness … [Read more...]
Denim Spirit: Death and Gratitude
http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-of-death-and-gratitude/article_32d9307e-648f-11e6-8329-df20461db823.html In dim light and thick air, when heavy emotions wet the atmosphere as life … [Read more...]