December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?
My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.
It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.
To be wild is to be free, unbought and unbossed by the structures of power.
“What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”
Life is fragile. We live under the looming threat of real-world collapses. In Afghanistan, what took 20 years and $80 billion for the United States to build collapsed in days. It’s common to reach for things to shield us from the terror of our awareness that everything can end without notice, like a vapor. Jesus says, “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.”