What an extraordinary moment in American History! A bunch of my friends are getting the day off for Juneteenth. There’s talk of making it a national holiday and I don’t think that sounds far-fetched. Confederate monuments are coming down. Christopher Columbus statues are coming down. It seems like the last vestiges of racism in AmericaContinue reading “Hey (!), White People (!), We Get to Repent!”
Category Archives: repentance
What if I didn’t have to be myself all the time?
A friend of mine was feeling trapped this week by feelings and thoughts he was having that he didn’t like. The exact situation doesn’t really matter that much because I think most of us can supply our own scenarios in which our thoughts and feelings come to us as unwelcome strangers. When this happens, itContinue reading “What if I didn’t have to be myself all the time?”
Resolving not to suck sucks
I love New Years resolutions. Any opportunity to change is my favorite, because my whole life is about transformation. Walking the narrow way that Jesus recommends to us requires some healthy self evaluation on a regular basis. I spent some time in my twenties “just trying to do better,” constantly plagued by a dissatisfaction IContinue reading “Resolving not to suck sucks”
Like a Thief in the Night
I was doing something very dangerous yesterday- flying down Pine Street on my bike listening to Rich Mullins with my headphones in. It was dangerous in 4 ways: 1) The obvious safety hazard of riding a bike without being able to hear 2) The scorn I could receive from my musically cool friends for listeningContinue reading “Like a Thief in the Night”
What sort of self do you have?
A Balkan born theologian and philosopher, Miroslav Volf, knows how to write a cogent argument! I’ve copied a rather lengthy quote because it just had to be shared and I think it speaks to our work of inclusion as a community on mission. “Through faith and baptism the self has been re-made in the imageContinue reading “What sort of self do you have?”
Today, if you hear his voice 