Well, preparing for today was humbling and challenging. Last week, inspired by the birth of my grandson, I reached for the intangible. I sought to capture an experience rather than define or … [Read more...]
Recognizing One Another
I had a recent facetime call with a friend who is in seminary. She was exhilarated by the intellectual stimulation of learning about the Hebrew Scripture as well as New Testament … [Read more...]
God
800 BCE, first known mention of the God of Israel Text for Preaching Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the … [Read more...]
Mad Farmer of the Cosmos
Link to Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23, today’s text: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13%3A1-9%2C+18-23&version=MSG There are some problems with 1st century agrarian wisdom as the … [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...]
The Voice
“Cameron Calhoun!” That was my mother’s voice…when she was jovial. When I was in trouble it was just, “Cameron.” “Cam?” Low, tentatively quiet…that was my Dad’s voice. “Daddy” “Pops” And a … [Read more...]
The Core
‘They’ say – the famous ‘they’ – that most preachers only have three or four sermons and that every sermon is a riff on one of those core sermons. Even the greatest of preachers – ‘they’ say … [Read more...]
Trust – the last best option
“Finding the Right (Person)” by Rabbi Marc Gellman, from “Does God Have A Big Toe: Stories about stories in the Bible.” “Most people do not realize it, but God put in calls to other people before … [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...]