This post is about me. It is not about you. It is not about other people,  or groups or causes. It is not about what I think you should do. It is about me. Our church is walking through Jesus' famous "Sermon on the Mount" this summer. It can be found in the Gospel of Matthew, […]

I am working on a post about our current national pain over race and violence and injustice. But until I get that done, I wanted to share a bit from a book I am reading  called The Preaching Life, by Barbara Brown Taylor. In it she talks about the disillusionment that can come from pain […]

I have tried writing posts the last few weeks, and have ended up deleting them all. I use words all the time. Using words to talk about God and life and faith is what I do. And then, usually at the end of a long run of preaching and teaching, my words dry up. And […]

"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of  all religious fanaticism." (Rienhold Niebuhr)

I have been quiet lately. It is hard to know what to say in the face of another mass murder in our country. It is hard to know what to say in the face of our toxic political culture. It is hard to know what to say in light of all the yapping going on, […]

It is my favorite time of the summer. Work has slowed a bit. My adult kids are not yet here using our house as home base as they transition from place to place. My soul is settling down. My heart is getting quiet. My breathing is deeper, slower. I could sit for hours on my […]