21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
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A New Testament that connects the heart languages of First Nations people
The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.”
How the midwives Shiphrah and Puah mock the violence of empire
They use Pharaoh’s tools to dismantle oppression.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
A sttack of rough stones (12A; Matthew 16:13-20)
Imagine Jesus at the beach, building a cairn.
A stack of rough stones (12A; Matthew 16:13-20)
Imagine Jesus at the beach, building a cairn.
August 23, 21A (Exodus 1:8-2:10)
When the privileged and the helpless are called into holy conspiracy
The pandemic calls for closed hymnals
Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
Walking with Moses from slavery to liberation
When Moses says “keep still,” he’s not recommending inactivity.
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
August 27, Ordinary 21A (Matthew 16:13-20)
Not everyone knows who Jesus is. Do his disciples?
An oracle of the word of the Lord?
In the late 70s, two friends of mine housesat for the poet James Merrill—and got out his Ouija board.
The housed, the homeless, and the right to be somewhere
Faced with someone trying to deny me shelter from the rain, I thought, are you kidding?
Exchanging letters with people in hell
My state has the same number of churches as prisoners. This fact haunts me.
Everybody is somebody
The church is still uncomfortable with human bodies. It does little to promote the rich connection between bodies and Christian spirituality.
Paul uses "body" as a metaphor, and contemporary Christians do the same when we say "the body of Christ." This metaphorical usage generally takes precedence in the church’s practice.
Sunday, August 24, 2014: Romans 12:1-8
Bodies matter for Paul. And they matter for Christian discipleship. Paul foregrounds the human body as critical for the Christian response to God's mercy.
Robert McAfee Brown, selected with an introduction by Paul Crowley
Decades ago when I was a graduate student at Union Seminary in New York City, Robert McAfee Brown was the hot young teacher of theology.
Saying and doing
Recently, a friend and I were talking about how disturbed and saddened we’ve been by the hateful and decidedly unchristian words spoken by self-proclaimed Christian leaders in recent years. The examples are too numerous to cite, and each has its own agenda of hatred and division. I complained that it was so deeply unfair that such intolerant and offensive perspectives were being allowed to speak for me and all other Christians.
My friend offered a profound and simple response: “Chris, they only speak for you if you don’t speak for yourself.”