my good deeds are like a tampon…
In this week’s lectionary readings we find a prayer from Isaiah 64. The tide has turned in Isaiah’s (or second Isaiah’s) thoughts and no more…
lectionary
A summer of confession and struggle and hope
I have decided to journey through the book of Romans with my church folks this summer. a) it’s the lectionary b) I haven’t spent that…
Why the Revised Common Lectionary is the perfect model for Emergent Church
Random thought came to me tonight. How it came to me is the subject of my next blog…. but in any case. Every week, people…
the one we are waiting for
A couple of weeks ago, our president spoke before the nation and an audience at West Point to announce a surge in military personnel in…
calls for justice in the midst of advent joy
This coming Sunday we will light the third candle on the Advent wreath – the candle for JOY. We hear in the midst of this…
entering the fray: Psalm 109
For those of you who might have missed it, there has been a wave of t-shirts, bumper stickers and other such things that say “Pray…
the limitations of congregations
The following is something that Taylor Burton-Edwards presented at our School For Ministry here in Iowa this spring, and I was reminded of it again through a…
Passion Sunday
For about two and a half weeks now, I have been working on and reworking and tweaking our Passion Sunday worship. Last year, our format…