“After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just…
A line from the great American poet Mary Oliver provokes and haunts me, almost on the daily:Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious…
I am reading the sermons of Martin Luther for Advent and Christmas, and finding him more fascinating and compelling than I thought he would be. And also surprising. The two…
Advent begins today. I cannot think of a year when I was more personally ready for it. This has been a year of delay, disruption, of dashed expectations… of waiting…
I'm a church kid. Born and raised. 37 years, with some two dozen of those spent seriously following Jesus. Some of my oldest and most spiritually formative memories are of…
I know for some people it is. In this when failures of human fatherhood abound, it is easy to move backwards into the biblical text with an impulse to sneer…
I’ve been doing a bit of reading lately for a possible doctoral research project having to do with the faith and practice of the early church. As such, my Amazon…
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