For the Sake of Love, I unfriend you
What is Lent if its’ not a season to increase our capacity to care, to connect, to discern the true shape of love in our world? Hans Haffner, an early Anabaptist, said “When we truly realize the love...
View ArticleHAVE YOU BEEN BORN FROM ABOVE? Destroying confidence for the sake of faith.
We might do well to think of new imagery able to address our own postmodern longings and faith. Images that mystify and invite mystery, defy classification and leave us curious for more. Might we...
View ArticleGod’s Story is Our Story
The Christian education in many churches and homes teaches the stories found in scripture. We are introduced to individual stories, or lots of them anyway (there are hundreds of individual stories and...
View ArticleHow to clarify your Resolution in 2015
Is it possible to clarify or even improve how we see ourselves, God, and the world? And if so what would that look like; and what would it require from us? I think it’s indeed possible, and abundantly...
View ArticleSELMA (A film review) and the Sunny Days Ahead
I encourage you to see this film. Not for its outstanding acting, directing, musical score or cinematography (they are all excellent). But for the picture it creates in your mind. The picture of the...
View ArticleCan Science Clarify Spiritual Renewal?
If we’re committed to renewal as growth how about a forward-focused model designed for “winnowing the truth from lies and delusion.” The Scientific Method is, by its very definition, a verbal...
View ArticleWhat Stops You From Loving?
It goes without saying that God treats us better than we treat ourselves. If you’re at all like me, you might go through your average day as your own worst critic, judging yourself for all manner of...
View ArticleDoing Something in an Out-of-Control World
A month ago I borrowed a chain saw and pruned our church trees. If you want to know why, I need to tell you about my job. I work Saturday night to Thursday night, which means that my Friday night is...
View ArticleWHY GOOD THEOLOGY MATTERS
I’m learning again how integral my image of God is to spiritual and human health. It colors my relationship with God, my prayer life (or lack thereof), what I think it means to put faith in to action,...
View ArticlePursuing Personal Transformation
"Our divine purpose is to experience personal transformation.” It’s when we find true healing that our purpose becomes clear, and our mouths are freed to share God’s great love for others.
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