Sometimes I get to put our youngest to bed for an afternoon nap. Hollyn usually wants me to read the same three books. Going to the Zoo, Hey, Pancakes! and A Bad Case of Stripes. There is something comforting about this ritual. We know the narrative, but we are drawn into the familiar rhythm of the words…pictures. [...]
U2 Praise & Worship: 40/Streets Prayer Breakfast
I went to see U23D at the Whitaker Center last evening. I have never been to a live U2 concert before, but this was no doubt the next best thing.
…from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.” For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in [...]
“So do you think we are going to have a Muslim president?”
My colleague’s question caught me off guard. I looked up from the stack of papers I was beginning to grade during my planning period. I had turned the TV on to MSNBC and the political pundits were breaking down the prospects of Barack Obama [...]
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
1 John 4:18
Karissa is a part of the EMU cross-cultural group to the Middle-East this semester. I’m jealous! What an opportunity to explore the world–especially a part of our [...]
Here’s a little 14 item quiz that asks questions related to the issues that are a part of the political debate this election season. After answering the questions, the candidates are stacked up according to which ones are the most compatible with your positions.
You can skip to the summary of the candidates views on each item [...]
Which side wins—Democrat or Republican, East or West, elite or bourgeois or proletariat, Herodian or Zealot—may be considered news within the system, but until someone brings into the system resources from outside it, unless someone kicks a hole in the wall of the system so we aren’t trapped within it, there is no real good [...]
Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. Isaiah 49:1
I have been meditating on this verse as I prepare to preach Sunday. A recurring theme in the lectionary texts for Sunday is that of being named by God. [...]
Snow
Snow,
blessed snow,
comes out of the sky
like bleached flies.
The ground is no longer naked.
The ground has on its clothes.
The trees poke out of sheets
and each branch wears the sock of God.
There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
I bite it.
Someone once said:
Don’t bite till you know
if it’s bread or stone.
What I bit is all bread,
rising, yeasty as [...]
I have been caught up by a wave of technologically mediated community. Not community in the 3-dimensional social matrix sense, but community nevertheless. Several weeks ago Shawn Anthony invited me to be a part of an emerging guild of writers whose blog content would be aggregated at The Daily Scribe. I casually said yes, not really thinking about the way I [...]
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