Christian Wiman’s feel-bad memoir
Zero at the Bone is extraordinary. Just don’t expect it to be delightful.
Prayers rising past the immanent frame
Charles Taylor helps me understand my church’s architecture—and my own struggles with faith.
The Word made grotesque
If we want our sermons to resemble real life, says Charles Campbell, we might take a hint from carnival.
Returning to a book that shaped my imagination
Is there a word for nostalgia tinged with trauma?
Focus on the breath (John 20:19-31)
Jesus, fresh out of his own three-day savasana, breathes on the disciples.
Craving hope (Isaiah 65:17-25; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26)
We live between variants; we also live between Advents.
April 24, Easter 2C (Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31
Thomas might be the patron saint of a secular age.
April 17, Easter Day C (John 20:1-18)
Mary has no hand to clutch or shoulder to lean on.
It takes faith to resist the attention economy
We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.
The good news in John Green’s reviews of Diet Dr Pepper and sunsets
He says they’re memoirs, but I’m onto him. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more like a collection of sermons.
Bodies at worship (Palm/Passion B) (Philippians 2:5-11)
Every knee shall bow, even our knees.
The real Eugene Peterson
Many of my LGBTQ friends and clergy sisters have disavowed Peterson’s writings. Not I.
A God who does laundry (Lent 5B) (Psalm 51:1-12)
On giving Eugene Peterson's The Message another chance
March 28, Passion Sunday B (Mark 14:1-15:47)
Did Easter even come last year? Will it ever come again?