(The substance of this post was written several days ago, but due to my....
Elevator Speech (1st Attempt)
Ours is a faith strengthened by engagement and contrast, rather than fidelity....
Working Towards Elevator Speech
I am spending some time in Germany, England, and Scotland. In Germany I am seeing my teenaged daugther for the first time in ten months; she has been an exchange student living with a host family, the head of which is a Lutheran minister. I figured....
Running Deep: Arriving at Deportation Airport in Germany
Of the many signs indicating that this was Frankfurt Flughafen (airport), the....
Vengeance is a Lazy Form of Grief
Today at Village Church, we were blessed to have a guest speaker share a story....
In the Company of Home Wreckers: Bidding for Our Survival
Tim DeChristopher. If you don’t know his name, it’s time you did. Tim DeChristopher is also known as Bidder 70. He’s the guy who, through a turn of events not wholly of his own making, found himself among people trying to buy up the rights to....
Thoughts on Trayvon Martin (April 12, 2012)
I originally wrote this in April, 2012, as a meditation for a class in....
Ditto God as Poetry
"Are you ever going to talk about God?" I am currently and temporarily serving a church that is officially affiliated as United Church of Christ. It has a Christian history, though its present and anticipated future is more theologically....
City Called Wait: Where Not Everything Is Lost
Not all that long ago, I flew to the West Coast to visit my mother. ....