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Bed Bugs
When Jesus said, “Do not store up treasures on earth,” I don’t think he wasn’t talking about people who live on little. Jesus was talking to the pampered people, like me.
Trinity
The beauty of the Holy Trinity is that it pushes us past definitions for God—beyond protector God, beyond tangible Jesus, beyond surprising Spirit. Because we need them all.
Doubting Your Doubt
Is doubt to be accepted or rejected in faith? When does doubt indicate humility, the willingness to be wrong? And when doubt mask as fear, the unwillingness to take risks in faith?
Let the Spirit of the Lord Rise
Living right doesn’t save us from harm. Job was a blameless man, but his friends said he must have deserved his misfortune. May our faith never blame victims for their suffering.
Sleepy Jesus
Many of us could use more sleep. Maybe Jesus teaches us to be faithful nappers, so confident and well-rested in divine presence that we are not sunk by every crisis that assails us.
Projecting Francis
Francis of Assisi wasn’t all peace songs and birdbaths. He questioned Christians’ docility in the face of wrong and contested our easy sentimentality about God.
Triumph of the Meek
The work of reform needs quiet fighters as well as front line mavericks. Meekness is not weakness in the perseverance toward change.
Extra Credit
I’d love to be perfect, God, but we both know that’s not going to happen. Help me pass with a B+ is all I ask.
I Remember Your Name in the Night
I remember a lot of things at night: the emails not answered, the deadlines missed, the cookies I shouldn’t have eaten. I am practicing remembering God’s name above all.
When Your Mother Dies
Before death and after death, O God, let us figure out who we and others really are—each unique to ourselves, not only seen through the lens of others.