Ezekiel

Dry bones don’t resurrect themselves.

The Enlightenment thinker was fiercely critical of religion. But what did he mean by religion?

Growing up, I never understood the book of Revelation. Then I started listening to Black Sabbath.

In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.

“Yearning for life is a part of what it means to be human.”

God’s Spirit before birth and after death

We practice our faith in the season of Lent so that we know what to do when things get harder. 

David Wallace-Wells charts a path for life in the wake of global warming.

What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?

The synagogue at Dura, in present-day Syria, contained three murals recounting the history of Israel from the ancestral period through the exile and resettlement of the land.

I once cared for a sick and vulnerable lamb.

God is calling us out.

Honestly, it seems like our flesh has a massive design flaw.

When I was baptized at 12, I refused what Baptists call “the right hand of fellowship.” I wanted the water but not the fellowship.

Langston Hughes challenged our consciousness by asking, “What happens to a dream deferred?” What results when hope, aspirations, callings, and promises are delayed, put off, postponed, or thwarted? Were they flawed expectations? Do such deferred dreams become burdensome desires that fade and never manifest, forever haunting us?

Six months after Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri—where I serve as a pastor—there are families still wrestling with the question, “What would have happened if...?”

What would it mean for us to be filled with the breath of God again and come to life for the sake of racial justice?

Ezekiel 34:21-22 provides a particularly poignant image of God the shepherd’s care for the “least of these”:

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged.

Reading these verses reminds me of a day several years ago, when our family visited a local petting zoo in Atlanta.