What images and associations come to mind when you ponder the phrase, “Survival of the fittest?” All my life I have assumed that the phrase meant the strongest ones become stronger and more numerous...
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to...
What does it mean to live inside Jesus’ story? The novelist Margaret Atwood has said that in the end, we will all end up as stories. For those of us claimed by the love of God made flesh in Jesus, it...
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6.8) My wife and I love watching movies...
I find Walter Brueggemann's framework of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation quite helpful as we as a denomination try to grow in diversity and unity. According to Brueggemann, our faith...
As I moved across the Narthex, I could see my office door. Inside was a chair I knew I could collapse in and a desk on which I could place all the music, binders, and odds and ends that had...
Everywhere we look in our culture you will find plastic. One place where you will not find plastic, however, is in the Bible. Plastics, first created in 1907, began global production in the 1950s...
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me...
"The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple." 1 Kings 5:18 When we look at Solomon within the context of the Book...
“You don’t know what it’s like to be single at 39.” Words I never expected to utter more than once in the last few weeks. I never want to sound bitter, much less be bitter. I aspire to be the person...
A Valentine’s Day Meditation Inflected by Liberation Theology Valentine’s Day this year may appear ironic, given the many regions of the world torn apart by war, the encroaching climate crisis, or...
"Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the...
