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November 27, 2017

I hope you kneel

I hope you kneel in broad daylight under the noonday sun on the moist Mother...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

A Little Christmas Hope

The Nativity scene is one of my favorite parts of the Advent/Christmas season. Remembering the...

December 21, 2014

Advent, Anticipation, Agnostic. Touch me — Let’s Give Birth to Ourselves, conjunto

Knowledge has always fascinated me. How do we know, what do we know, how are...

December 19, 2014

A Highway of Liberation: A #BlackLivesMatter Sermon for Advent

The past month has made it abundantly clear that black people in this country suffer...

December 18, 2014

This Advent, Think Different. What Is GOD Waiting For?

It’s Advent again. This is the time, leading up to Christmas, when we reflect upon...

December 13, 2014

Jesus Did NOT Come To Save Your Sins

I used to know it all. I used to have it all figured out. I...

December 12, 2014

Christmas Eve, Incarnation, and Knowing Mary

The setting was perfection. Large gothic sanctuary, slate floor, wooden pews with iron candle holders,...

December 08, 2014

Sacred, Pregnant Waiting

Advent. This time of year has always been somewhat sacred to me. Despite the fact that...

December 24, 2012

May Christmas be Filled with Mouse Poop and Camel Spit By Randy S. Woodley

In this cynical and snarky world in which we live, we are getting pretty good...

December 23, 2012

God the Father and Embryo

Advent suggests so many mysteries of God's patience. One rarely commented case is God as...

December 22, 2012

Tragic loss of children, birth of a child…redemptive hope-filled imagination.

No matter where I seem to go this Christmas I can't seem to get out...

December 22, 2012

Optional Advent

This being the season of Advent; I think it’s worth taking a moment to identify...

December 16, 2012

There must be more

The first Advent was rather private, rural, shameful. Nine months in the womb of a...

December 02, 2012

The Annunciation – A Divinely Human Moment

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a...

December 21, 2011

The Magi Myth

I have no real problem with believing that actual Magi saw a funky astrological phenomenon...

December 20, 2011

Christmas…a revolution birthed in pain

" Silent night, Holy night...all is calm, all is bright ", every christmas we sing...

December 14, 2011

Advent’s Economic Good News

It’s Advent, and I am waiting for Jesus, trying to keep my eyes open to...

December 13, 2011

And Our Eyes At Last Shall See Him

In our family, we saturate the airwaves with Christmas music during the Advent season. We...

December 12, 2011

Mary…re-imagining Advent

( Mary...East Vancouver 2007 ) It's late Sunday evening and I'm working on the computer...

December 10, 2011

Tis the Season…

Christmas just isn't so much my season. I'm not a Scrooge exactly, but maybe just his...

December 09, 2011

But How Amazing Is It That We Get To Help?

This Advent we are looking at the Christmas story through the lens of the Mission...

December 08, 2011

Is God Coming? An Advent Poem

Is God coming? God is here! Can’t you see him all around you? From the...