The Wealth in our Wallets instead of the Well-being of the World
This afternoon I watched the United States join two nations… Syria and Nicaragua… in being the only three nations in the entire world that are…
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Livin’ on the Edge
This morning, we are hanging out in liminal space… That’s a funny word isn’t it… liminal…. Say it with me… liminal. It comes from…
Forcing Growth
We have probably 20 volunteer red bud trees growing in the landscaping of our back yard. If we simply let them be, they are in…
Renegade Gospel: The Red-Letter Rebel
There was a challenge issued TWICE by Mike Slaughter in chapter one of this Renegade Gospel book we are examining during this Lenten season: to…
Returning from Thin Places
There are places in this world that are “thin.” It is a label given to places, in the Celtic understanding, where the barrier between the…
Singing for Peace
As we continue to wait for the one who has already come, the birth of Christ into our world and our lives, we are so…
Thankful Giving
In our gospel reading this morning, we meet Zacchaeus, that “wee-little man”, who was really a terrible, awful person. As Carol Howard Merritt describes him:…
Two Texts: Privilege and the Beloved Community
In my life, I have been pulled over by a police officer perhaps half a dozen times. One was for a broken taillight and the…