Revelation

While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.

When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.

When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.

The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.

Given the environmental future we’re facing, we would do well to address it with resurrection hope.

It often works pretty well for us.

It often works pretty well for us.

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.

Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.

As theophanies go, this one is oddly comforting.

At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.

Jesus acts in response to real human suffering and actual human tears.

The disruptive way of the Lamb

The disruptive way of the Lamb

What would the global church look like if we all honored our ancestors as members of the communion of saints?

From dust I came and to dust I shall return—but not forever.

Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?