The Desert of Religion
You cannot go around a desert Christian Wiman America is in the midst of a fairly significant anti-establishment phase effecting...
I Don't Know How To Love Him Either
Rabbi Donniel Hartman has just published a book entitled Putting God Second-How to save religion from itself (Beacon Press, 2016). One...
re-de-Constructing the Kingdom
“But Jesus answered them, You give them something to eat.” Mark 6:37 Most of us at one time or another has been assigned a job that...
Sacred Verse for a Summer's Night
For Joe...... Ashes to the river you loved toasting moonshine to your smile Tears and laughter and the mountains witness Our sudden...
Confederates in the Church Attic: How the debate about the Confederate Flag is an analogy for Contem
The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past. ― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the...
June 18th, 2015
I woke up this morning with the tragic news that nine people were killed last night at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston...
Why Four Gospels- A Holy Week Meditation
Lent and Holy Week bring out strange media events. There is the parade of "exposes" by all manner of skeptics that propose to offer new...
Into the Mystic- Living into the Transcendent God
Van Morrison is the John Donne of blue-eyed soul*. Into the Mystic is my personal favorite. It is rare for a song or poem to be equally...
The Unintended Wilderness of Contemporary Christianity or “I’ve been through the desert with an apoc
The silence was actually getting to me. Instead of welcoming the solitude as an opportunity to pray and work on multiple projects, it...
Obstacles to the Dream
My political worldview was permanently imprinted by the events of 1968. On TV, I watched soldiers and children dying in Viet Nam; Martin...
