I love listening to broken people talk about God. There is no moralizing, no pontificating, no fake humility about how they are just so blessed. Just. So. Blessed. Give me a good alcoholic who has to try every day to stay on the wagon, give me someone who has had their heart broken once or […]

I have noticed in my decades as a pastor that more people than not have a troubled relationship with God. Rather than experiencing God as love and loving, we experience God as judgmental and judging. This dramatically impacts how we live, whether we realize it or not. A couple quotes got me thinking about this. […]

Straight up Padraig O'Tuama today, no commentary. The Zulus have it right, though, in one of their names for God. They call God uNkulunkulu, translating loosely as Big-Big. When I heard that, I wondered at the genius who began to speak of the unnameable in such a way, and then I thought of my friend […]

In my decades as a pastor, the complaint I heard most from all kinds of folks went something like this, "I want to have a stronger spiritual life, but my everyday life gets in the way." Sound familiar? There is an inherent fallacy in this statement that leaves us all with no perceivable solution. There […]

I am entranced with Christian Wiman's memoir/series of essays entitled My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. This is my second or third attempt at reading it; I was simply not ready for it the first time. This time, though ... If you are a slightly angsty, deconstructing or deconstructed Christian or Christian-adjacent person, […]

We are told that if we seek God with all our heart, God will be found. (Jeremiah 29:13) This is a beautiful image - the human soul desiring God and seeking God with all that is within us. And God, we are promised, wants to be found, and even promises to be found. A strong […]