Debbie Blue

Debbie Blue is a pastor at House of Mercy Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of Sensual Orthodoxy (Cathedral Hill Press) and From Stone to Living Word (Brazos).

Articles by Debbie Blue

Books

5 books for ministry

May 04, 2010 selected by Debbie Blue
Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell (Continuum). Will Campbell distrusts institutions, the religious enterprise, and faith that is too settled. He’s often irreverent, finds church in a tavern, and will offer visitors a sip of whiskey and call it communion (so I hear).
Blogging Toward Sunday

Dismembership

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21

Jan 18, 2010 by Debbie Blue

The church I serve is 15 years old, and we’ve never had members.

Living by the Word

Good wine

Isaiah 62:1-5; John 2:1-11

Jan 12, 2010 by Debbie Blue

On the darkest day of the year, the Incas tried to tie the sun down. The Zunis kept their fire indoors and let the trash pile up in their dwellings; Zoroastrians stayed up all night and read poetry. Wild women tore the god Dionysus to pieces and ate him. There were winter solstice rituals that involved pig snouts, ghosts, the river Nile turning into wine.

Living by the Word

The light of Epiphany

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Jan 12, 2010 by Debbie Blue

The ancient church fathers struggled with the physical implications of the incarnation—the mother’s womb, the birth and afterbirth. God gets a human body, orthodoxy has always proclaimed: a human body rife with bacteria, hormones and phlegm. Tertullian insists that God became fully human, though he recounts the details with some distaste.

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