Tag: power

  • Always the Innocents

    Always the Innocents

    The feast day of Holy Innocents is the part of the Christmas story that never makes it into pageants. But we need to hear it each year.

  • I don’t want to see crosses in nature

    I don’t want to see crosses in nature

    Many of us pretend this symbol is both innocent and inspiring. That it isn’t political. But it always is—especially in nature.

  • It isn’t just that Pearl Jam was right

    It isn’t just that Pearl Jam was right

    We have treated the time Pearl Jam took Ticketmaster to court like a foolish endeavor. Now we’re the fools.

  • A Cause for Celebrating

    A Cause for Celebrating

    The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.

  • God had him trade water for sand

    God had him trade water for sand

    A Poem of Temptation

  • The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    The Temptation (Lent 1A)

    Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.

  • Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    Is He Tempted? (a reflection)

    The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.

  • Listening

    Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.