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Hate Life?
Getting at what Jesus means can be difficult when we’re distracted by what he says. Yes, he is still about the love.
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Division and Possessions
Jesus’s keeps urging us to see our relationships (to the world, each other, and our stuff) entirely differently.
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Possessions
When we’re told to get rid of our possessions, what are we really thinking about? And why is it so hard to do?
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Ownership is changing
How we think about owning things is evolving. But we often still use old measuring sticks to make new decisions.
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The seductive power of fake simplicity
People have a hard time with complexity. But we can’t just cut things out of context and call that simplicity.
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The Exquisite Pain of the Reboot
I want to break up with big tech. But it is just so convenient. Two nights ago, I downloaded Vivaldi. It’s a web browser that is faster, more secure, and most importantly, not run by Google. The thing is, I didn’t open it. I was too afraid. Last night, I buckled down and started it…
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When Jesus Tweets
This morning’s gospel is like a Facebook post. It begins divisively, then starts to sound rational, and then ends with an unattainable call to action full of shame. With a passage like this, Jesus could totally win the internet. Proper 18C | Luke 14:25-33 I’m gonna guess that like any good Facebook post, there’s going…
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All Ate and Were Filled
All Ate and Were Filled (Day 20 of A Simple Lent) Thursday Outside of the Passion story or maybe Luke’s version of the birth story, there are few stories about Jesus that are as universally known as the Feeding of the Multitudes. If I were to ask you to tell the story, you probably could. It…