Spirituality. Politics. Music. Life.
If you find yourself recognizing JD Vance’s smirk, or even agreeing with it, right now you are doing great harm to our world. I know you’ve been taught otherwise. I know you’ve been taught the toxic lessons that White men are supposed to “lead,” and everyone else supposed to follow.
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The debate surrounding truth in America has extended to differing interpretations of Christianity, particularly highlighted by Bishop Budde’s sermon advocating mercy for the LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. This polarized response reflects a larger issue: the recognition of Progressive Christianity, which, contrary to assumptions, constitutes a significant minority within American Christianity.
Read MoreThe angels were holding a washcloth over my mouth, and I was struggling against them.My arms and legs were thrashing.I was suddenly afraid that I could not breathe. I had awakened to find them basically on top of me, and I didn’t know what was happening. The angels were using a spray bottle to pour […]
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Until we reverse the tide of our abandonment of the real world, in favor of the digital one, we’ll continue to see data like the NYT show us here.
That means finding ways to talk to our neighbors, our actual neighbors in the actual places where we live, across the divides….not even necessarily about politics…but just connecting with them as human beings have connected for thousands of years.
Just look at how beautiful this is.
This is my city.
This is the core, where I live, where I work, and where you’ll find me most of the time.
For the uninitiated, the foreground lights are less than 2 miles from me, right now. They are the State Fair of Texas, where as they have for the last 110 years, Texas will face against OU later today.
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“I think God speaks to us through little events that happen. And if we’re listening closely to life events, our opportunities to help others leap out in front of us.
Tuesday afternoon, I was working in the office, when Oscar Brown stopped by to let me know the Day School Staff and parents were reporting a houseless neighbor, passed out on our playground.”
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There are as many as 100 International Delegates not at United Methodist General Conference this year, many of whom are from Africa. This has caused many questions. Allegations have been made that General Conference failed to communicate with them quickly, or the American government failed to issue visas quickly. Calls have been made to investigate. […]
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This week, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will begin in Charlotte, North Carolina. This will be the first “regular” General Conference since 2016. I thought I would put down a few thoughts ahead of this potentially momentous week for the new United Methodist Church. These will be a combination of personal reflections […]
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Frederick Buechner once described “Prayer” in a way that leaps to my mind this week, in these days after our communal experience of the Eclipse. Buechner wrote: “We all pray whether we think of it as praying or not. The odd silence we fall into when something very beautiful is happening, or something very good […]
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Increasingly, I am convinced the opposite of “faith” is not “doubt,” but “fear.” This is because the deepest level of “faith” is not “belief,” but “trust;” and the opposite of “trust/faith” is “fear/anxiety.” Instead of faith’s opposite, doubt is a part of the journey of faith. Skepticism is, or should be, embraced as how we […]
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