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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleEaster 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...
View ArticleSkin: 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...
View ArticleBurning 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...
View ArticleFailing 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...
View ArticleInto 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...
View ArticleLet 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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