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Die Laughing: It’s a Lent Thing

It’s all heavy sometimes. Life. Ministry. Lent. Winter. An election year. All of it. Some days it is all just heavy. My heart is especially heavy as Lent begins this year, with sadness for a family...

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The World is Our Home: Terrorism, Holy Week, and Other Things We’d Like to...

If you know anything about personality typing, then I can tell you I’m an ENFP, and a 7…and you’ll know that, among other things, I’m an escape artist. On a good day, that means I’m a day dreamer. In...

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Go Prepare a Place: Holy Week and Political Trans-Shaming

If you haven’t been following the Kansas politiscape, then you’re welcome. It is a mind-melting, heartbreaking and head-banging-into-the-wall kind of situation, and if you live in another state at the...

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For 30 Pieces of Silver, and a Piece of Chocolate Cake

And Jesus gathered his disciples, those he loved best. A fresh loaf of bread on the table between them, like a thousand times before. He broke it and said everything is about to change, so I’m going to...

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Easter Snow: A Frozen Hallelujah, Étude

There was candy. There was singing and there were flowers, and kids in bright new outfits. There was Jesus coming up out of a cave like, “I don’t think so!” and there were kids home from college. There...

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Skin: Lent 1

Maybe he knew what he was doing When he got himself put close to the ground No legs? No problem No arms? Hands? Opposable thumbs? Who cares. Shunned for all time Over that whole fruit thing Maybe, but...

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Burning Churches, Competing Tragedies, and Bearing Witness to the Ashes

The Notre Dame Cathedral has been reduced to ashes. It’s a loss both literal and symbolic; the death of an icon for some, and to others, the tragic fall of a true church home. While church is “not a...

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Failing Lent: And Other Spiritual Disciplines

It’s been three months– a full quarter of the year–and I haven’t written much about the realities of leaving congregational ministry. Hell, I don’t think I’ve written about it at all, other than to...

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Into Your Hands

“Into your hands,” he says. “Into your hands I commit. Into your hands, I lay my spirit.” So we lay down too. Today we lay down and die a little For the suffering that didn’t go with him.   Into his...

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Let The Church Die: An Easter Manifesto

Here it is, Saturday. And here we sit, waiting to see if he’s going to get up again. “Sunday’s coming,” so they say. But this year, that doesn’t feel exactly, precisely true. At least not in the usual...

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