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April 2013

April 02, 2013

Don’t You Know Who I Am?

He is risen! Happy Easter, and all that. I don't usually post my sermons in...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

For Goodness’ Sake

Every other week of the world, Friday is full of good things. Barbeques and kids’...

March 21, 2013

Pink Bags (and Other Baggage)

Is this a post about Jesus? Not so much. I somehow couldn't manage to fit 'Jesus' and...

March 13, 2013

The Way the Wind Blows

I'm watching. You probably are too. While thousands of faithful Catholics have been waiting in...

March 05, 2013

Everything I Really Needed to Know About Ministry, I Learned as a Sorority Rush Chair

In a small group at church last weekend, we were asked to complete the following sentence:...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Year of the Dude: Hyper-Masculinity in Marketing, Media and Mega-church

Any time i post an especially pro-woman bit of commentary, i get feedback saying that...

February 07, 2013

Out of Joint

I hesitate to say this out loud and jinx myself so--knock on wood, or stucco,...

January 2013

January 15, 2013

The “Yes”es Have It

I spent the weekend at a mountain camp/retreat center with other church leaders from around Arizona. If you've ever...

January 11, 2013

Cold News

The Phoenix area news last night was hilarious. Temperatures were to drop down in the...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

In Church, at Christmastime

The phone is ringing off the hook, The sanctuary’s hard to book. Yes it’s clean--dare...

December 16, 2012

In the Bleak Midwinter

What Are You Waiting For? We have two choices; we are either waiting for death,...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

Fresh Batch of Good News

I love to veg out with a magazine. Doesn't really matter what kind, just something...

November 08, 2012

Change Gonna Come

Some folks seem to be reeling from some recent revelations: 1-- 'white majority' is no...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

…but the Lord was not in the wind

They're like Voldemort. Or perhaps I should say, "he who must not be named.' Because...

October 22, 2012

just say grace

God forgive us: when we would rather be right than do right. God forgive us:...

October 17, 2012

Primetime Throwdown (yes, Brian Williams just said ‘throwdown…’)

It was a long night. I went to sleep at a decent hour, then woke...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

50 Shades of “Seriously?”

Speaking of porn... (yes, we were. yesterday, remember?) Alright, you know i'm all for equality....

September 21, 2012

5:16

something i wrote last weekend in Prescott. remembering that sacred space today, here in the...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

I Gotta Ramble…

I haven't posted anything in a whole week. This was not intentional, just one of...

August 17, 2012

Ask: Why Fear of Death is Killing the Church

if we were not all so afraid of our own mortality, we'd be much more...

June 2012

June 09, 2012

The Great American Road Trip

What is it that keeps us moving? What are we looking for? I've wondered about...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

A Perfect Day

Following a pretty rotten day, the universe will sometimes throw you a nearly perfect one....

May 09, 2012

We Hold Some Truths to be Self-Evident…

I went to bed angry, and woke up with a deep and painful sigh of...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

Unwound

First, confessions of an English major: I was totally thrown off my zen today by...

April 23, 2012

More S*^! Jesus Says

I'm working/praying/stumbling my way through a sermon series on the Beatitudes, otherwise known at my...

April 18, 2012

Dear Church: It’s Not You, It’s Us

It is no secret: vocational ministers are burning out, leaving the Church, and experiencing a...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

A Handful of Change

Recession, re-shmession. I know it's tough out there. I know people have lost jobs and...

March 29, 2012

Louder and Less Polite

It is not news that people are leaving the Christian faith. Or that, increasingly, they...

February 2012

February 11, 2012

Day 2.5; New Mexico

Continuing with my English Major Diet, wherein the narrative matters as much as the food......

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Who Comes This Night, Take 2!

As promised earlier today ("To Welcome in the Stranger") here's another take of "Who Comes this Night,"...