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Family—expanding the network
The word family has so much to it: positive and negative. But the call to expand our sense of family is central to our life in faith.
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Up and Down
What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.
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Authority and the nature of our relationships
We often treat authority, like our understanding of power, as disembodied and other, rather than based in our relationships.
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One with God
On Trinity Sunday in Year A we read the Great Commission. A great opportunity to see what our relationship is made of.
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We must start with love
We hear all these other things about who we are and what we’re supposed to be, but there is one place we all must start: Love beyond ourselves. Of all things, we must start with love. It is our hermeneutic, our fundamental. Our North Star and compass. Love is the start and our predictor. Most…
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Membership
When I used to walk into a church for the first time, I’d show up within 5 minutes of the start of worship. I’d try to find a seat in the back, and I would just sort of find my way in. I didn’t really want to be shown how to worship there. I knew…
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Being Where GOD Will Be
That is our certainty. It is found being where GOD is. Where GOD says GOD will be. It isn’t found in our stated beliefs or creeds or political affiliation or what our Sunday School teachers taught us about GOD: it is about how we treat the powerless and the defenseless.
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Breaking Our Fast
Of all the spiritual disciplines, I am quickly coming to the conclusion that this one is the most important: the discipline of breaking a fast. The foundation of the word discipline is in speaking of common order–and one’s relationship to order. When we speak of the church’s laws and principles, we refer to the “doctrine and discipline”…