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Christianity and the Falling Man
From Surreal to Real Hearing that a plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center wasn’t the most arresting thing I heard eleven years ago. At work, the rampant speculating, the absurd discontinuity of airplanes and buildings in far away places made the tragedy distant somehow. News spread in the waning minutes…
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Failing a Father
This guest post by Registered Runaway on Rachel Held Evans’ blog is too powerful to ignore. “Church Stories: Forgive them, Father” I want a church in which we can all celebrate and live up to the type of fatherhood described in the story. And their children inspire us to be better fathers as this one…
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Of the soil
a Homily for Proper 18B Text: Mark 7:24-37 Is Jesus a Racist? The central figures of this pericope are Jesus and the Psyrophenician Woman. This woman comes to Jesus to heal her daughter who is possessed by a demon. The last time Jesus was over here, he dispelled a host of demons. Our lectionary skipped…
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Check out the new #progGOD site
Thanks to Patheos, a major religion website, all of the submissions to Tony Jones’ #progGOD challenge have been placed in one spot. And I’m in there! Check it out here. You can find my submission about two-thirds of the way down on the right. Here is Tony’s announcement of the new webpage. What is #progGOD? A short while…
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Eating Scripture: Even the Dogs Get Scraps
Today I’m kicking off a weekly video series called “Eating Scripture” in which I attempt to break apart this week’s gospel in about 4 minutes or fewer to pass out the juiciest and crunchiest bits for each of us to chew on over the weekend. This week, we dive into the text (Mark 7:24-37) which contains a…
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How I Spent Labor Day
I love Labor Day. Particularly since it is the day of celebrating workers and the sacrifices and contributions that labor gives to the economy. We can go around pretending that it is a day for cookouts and signaling the end of summer, and not a celebration of unions and what they have brought us, such…
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Confessions of an accidental feminist
Go read Rachel Held Evans’ Confessions of an accidental feminist. Very good stuff. I always laugh a little to myself when I receive a Google Alert informing me that someone on the internet has criticized me as a “bitter, angry woman” intent on destroying the Church with my “radical feminist agenda.” I laugh because if these…
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