• Around the Mountaintop

    Around the Mountaintop

    Dealing with the Transfiguration in August is very different than In February. Because we are in a different place.

  • The Transfiguration

    The Transfiguration

    The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.

  • The value and depth of how we look

    The value and depth of how we look

    How we look communicates something to other people. Only part of which is something under our control.

  • Between Proper 12 + 13 (Year A)

    Between Proper 12 + 13 (Year A)

    In the gap in the lectionary, we skip over two essential stories which set up how we understand power moving forward.

  • Seeking something new

    Seeking something new

    The invitation to change—to be changed or to change the world around us—is both necessary and something we avoid.

  • The social media

    The social media

    The concept of social media involves a paradoxical plan to bring both universal and niche together in one place on purpose.

  • The truth about polarization we don’t want to hear

    The truth about polarization we don’t want to hear

    We talk about polarization like its something that happens to us. Rather than the byproduct of what we’re actually doing.

  • The Kingdom of Heaven is like…

    The Kingdom of Heaven is like…

    a mustard seed, yeast, treasure, a pearl. Something valuable. But what IS it? That things can actually be better than this.