We Might Need God to be Less Awful People
I talk to people nearly every day who find our cultural moment simultaneously bewildering and terrifying. The crumbling of institutions and moral norms. The shattering of public trust (accelerated by,...
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Tuesday Miscellany: Wars and Rumours
I sat down in my study this morning in a bit of a state, a bunch of things belligerently crashing around in my head. So, I decided to try to give them some shape. Or at least to let them out. It gets...
View ArticleWhat if There Isn’t Room in My Heart?
I clicked on the headline somewhat unthinkingly (as I too often do). “The forgotten war in Syria.” It’s a place and a people that has a unique place in my heart given our church’s efforts to sponsor...
View ArticleGod, is that You Calling?
At a Christmas party last week, I became the proud owner of an orange rotary telephone. This artifact came into my possession via a gift exchange where guests were instructed not to buy anything....
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The Village
My wife and I were recently wandering around the shops in Whitefish, MT where we had decamped for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. Many of the shops sold various knickknacks (coffee mugs, tea...
View ArticleThe Year of Our Lord
Today marks the last day of the year of our Lord 2023. Usually, this time of year has me scrambling some nostalgic year-end-ish kind of post together. I’ll often check my statistics from the last year,...
View ArticleOur Despair Might Say More About Us Than it Does About Reality
As I’ve mentioned before, over the last six years or so, I have devoted my sermons between Epiphany and Lent to questions of faith asked by members of our congregation. These can range from questions...
View ArticleThursday Miscellany (“Main Character” Edition)
Today feels like a miscellany day. Here’s some of what I’ve been reading and pondering over the last few days. I’m thinking we may have a “main character” problem in our cultural discourse these days…...
View ArticleOur Selves and Our God
What kind of selves do we need to be to live in harmony with others? I came across this question in a recent interview with Yale theologian Miroslav Volf. The context for the question was the endlessly...
View ArticleWe Do Not Want to Understand Each Other
I had never heard of Threads before I opened my computer this morning and read an article about it in The New York Times. Evidently, Threads is (or was designed to be) an un-Twitter, er, I mean an un-X...
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