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Remembering God is the hero in our story
The search for meaning, purpose, and place is deeply human. Jesus teaches his disciples to fixate less on what they do and more on who they are.
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Palms—tradition, attachment, and meaning
The intellectual challenge of Palm Sunday in the midwestern United States is that the main symbol is not ours.
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Prosecuting the Mob
We all know what the mob boss means. We must stop pretending like the words themselves are the problem here.
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Change: For the Sake of Change
The phrase is all too common: change for the sake of change. But we don’t actually mean it. We’re trying to say something else without having to say it. People like to say that we shouldn’t change for the sake of change. But it isn’t really true. We often change for the sake of change.…
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Sharing a birthday with FDR
I don’t know why it feels like an awesome responsibility. That sharing of a birthday. It’s not like he’s here to steal some cake. To the disconnected from the cosmic togetherness, the idea of sharing a birthday with anyone is meaningless. Coincidences are like that. Life has no meaning. We’re just so reasonable. For those…
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Did Not Know Joseph
How forgetting church history can mutate the future Did Not Know Joseph (Day 26 of A Simple Lent) | Thursday To understand our church history, we should look no further than the move from Genesis to Exodus. While it certainly doesn’t explain the history itself, it reveals that human tendency to lose sight of who we are and…
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Find Love, Make Love
“Make love” is a great phrase. I’m really captivated by this simple phrase: make love. Beyond the childish euphemism to sex, there is a potent mix of fascination and intimacy. We are pulled into each other’s orbits, physically present with someone, and it is in that place love is made. [bctt tweet=”Making love is the most dangerous…