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Red Heels and Purple Boots
I miss the congregation I pastored. I miss the space and the voices, the community as a whole and the congregants individually. Sometimes I wonder how the church is doing. Sometimes my throat tightens...
View ArticleLent 16: For the Elders
“After Paul and Barnabas had appointed elders in each church, with prayer and fasting the whole community entrusted them to the LORD in whom they had come to believe.” Let us pray for the elders of the...
View ArticleMonday Muse: Red Flagging “Easy” Theology
Oh my, but the Revised Common Lectionary readings for this coming Sunday resonate with me like fingernails down a chalkboard! Today’s Monday Muse for your worship preparation is less encouragement and...
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Monday Muse: Sign, Sign, Everywhere A Sign
In my neighborhood, a handful of churches faithfully announce their pastors’ weekly sermon titles on outdoor signs. These are mainline Protestant churches (names obscured to protect the innocent, lol),...
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Summer Reading: Streams Run Uphill
We need each other’s voices. We do not need numbers. We do not need quotas. We do not even need goals or standards. We need each other. We need each other’s experiences. We need each other’s dreams. We...
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How Now, White Church?
Weep, o church, for God has been shot in the streets. O God, we have sinned against you in thought, in word, and in deed. Hang your head, o church, for failing to attend God’s wake. We have left undone...
View ArticleMonday Muse: World Communion Liturgy
World Communion Sunday (October 5th this year) is an annual ecumenical celebration in some mainline American denominations, originating from a time in history when the spirit of ecumenism in American...
View ArticleMonday Muse: The Church at Meribah
The LORD said to Moses, “I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that people may drink.” Moses did so, and he called the place...
View ArticleDear White Preachers, Take Off Your Prophet’s Mantle
Dear White Preachers, I have been watching and listening to your reflections on the task of preaching to predominantly white congregations in the wake of the non-indictments in New York City and...
View ArticleFifth Sunday in Lent (With Us or Against Us)
Dear Jesus, I like to think that snark is a spiritual gift, that the well-executed side eye is a liturgical act, that being driven to inwardly climb walls is an act of spiritual sacrifice. Sarcasm and...
View ArticleLent 17
Side by side like strangers in a waiting room I sit next to you. Not a word or even a nod of recognition just shared breath and a common view, and it is enough. on Matthew 26:38b, “Stay awake with me.”
View ArticleLent 33
Creating & Advocating God, would that we (like you) could speak a word and it would come into being! Then we would say, “Love!” and suddenly all would be their brothers’ keepers. We would say,...
View ArticleLent 36
Come, friend: the world is hard enough. Let’s not argue over access to God or qualifications for loving one another. We’re walking in the same direction (and goodness knows I have much to learn), so if...
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Healing Spiritual Wounds
I’m ever grateful for the written work of colleagues whose words deepen the ongoing conversations about Church & faith in the 21st century. Carol Howard Merritt’s new book, Healing Spiritual...
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Kids and Prayer (DVD Giveaway)
Here it is: the biggest value of my giveaways this month: a free copy of the Kids and Prayer DVD (Protestant version) by Paraclete Press, in which I host four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of...
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Kids and Prayer (VBS)
It’s giveaway week for my Kids and Prayer DVD, a fun & creative resource in which I host four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of prayer. A $50 value, free for your home or church library!...
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Kids and Prayer (Summer Sunday School)
Have you entered your name in this week’s giveaway drawing to win a free copy of the Kids and Prayer DVD? This fun resource, with four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of prayer, is a $50 value...
View ArticleMelted
What the hell do any of us know, O Eternal Mystery? While we worship constancy and might, mountains melt and remold like wax. While we sing hymns in echoing caverns, the Spirit waits upon those in...
View ArticleDear White Preachers, Take Off Your Prophet’s Mantle
Dear White Preachers, I have been watching and listening to your reflections on the task of preaching to predominantly white congregations in the wake of the non-indictments in New York City and...
View ArticleFifth Sunday in Lent (With Us or Against Us)
Dear Jesus, I like to think that snark is a spiritual gift, that the well-executed side eye is a liturgical act, that being driven to inwardly climb walls is an act of spiritual sacrifice. Sarcasm and...
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