Texts for Preaching Jeremiah 20:7-13 "How to be a Poet" by Wendell Berry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41087 Matthew 10:24-39 SERMON “…Of the little words that … [Read more...]
Moral, Immoral, and Evil
This post originally appeared in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit," published in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]
Midwife to the Holy
It's a dangerous world. Justice is suspended slightly beyond our reach over a precipice we cannot span. The Earth we call fragile will fume and crack and shake, and likely grow and thrive and … [Read more...]
Denim Spirit: When Politics Is A Theological Event?
This article appeared first in The Finger Lake Times, Geneva, New York http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-politics-meets-theology/article_de730520-857a-11e6-8e3f … [Read more...]
Evil Part Two: We don’t want to know what absence would feel like
Presence…God has to be present in order to influence change. If God were not present - absent - our experience of life would be radically different. Strangely, presence and absence can be equally … [Read more...]
Evil Part One: An Email thread post-Paris
This is a two-part rant that probably does not belong the week before Christmas, but neither do mass shootings or national political leaders vomiting their own ugliness on the rest of us belong in the … [Read more...]