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April 2020

April 10, 2020

Into Your Hands

“Into your hands,” he says. “Into your hands I commit. Into your hands, I lay...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Giving Up or Showing Up: Lent And The Less Easy Way

Temptation is a loaded word. Does it make you think first of standard-issue sin, like stealing, adultery,...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

Failing Lent: And Other Spiritual Disciplines

It's been three months-- a full quarter of the year--and I haven't written much about...

April 15, 2019

Tiger Woods’ Comeback And The Complications Of Public Redemption

Guest Post: Rev. Shane Isner I remember how angry folk were at Tiger when it...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

Skin: Lent 1

Maybe he knew what he was doing When he got himself put close to the...

March 06, 2019

7 Things To Give Up For Lent That Actually Matter

In years past, I've gone vegetarian for Lent. My daughter is one already, so it...

April 2018

April 03, 2018

Easter Snow: A Frozen Hallelujah, Étude

There was candy. There was singing and there were flowers, and kids in bright new...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

7 Last Words, Redux

Because for the real, the raw, and the unimaginable that this day brings... sometimes art...

April 2017

April 02, 2017

From a Small Circle

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust

Guest post: This was the message for Saint Andrew's Ash Wednesday service last night, as we kicked...

March 01, 2017

The Fast I Choose: Lent, and What Consumes Us

Years past, I have rejected the notion of giving things up for Lent. I adhere...

March 25, 2016

Finished and Forsaken: 7 Last Words in Verse

Our Good Friday service at Saint Andrew this year is all music and poetry--reflections on...

March 23, 2016

Go Prepare a Place: Holy Week and Political Trans-Shaming

If you haven't been following the Kansas politiscape, then you're welcome. It is a mind-melting,...

March 22, 2016

The World is Our Home: Terrorism, Holy Week, and Other Things We’d Like to Forget

If you know anything about personality typing, then I can tell you I'm an ENFP,...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Die Laughing: It’s a Lent Thing

It's all heavy sometimes. Life. Ministry. Lent. Winter. An election year. All of it. Some...

February 10, 2016

The Death We Carry

I've been planning this for weeks. An intentional out-of-office beginning to Lent; traveling to different...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

Here is Your Son, Here is Your Mother

"Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and...

April 02, 2015

Resurrection Matters: The Holy Unknowing

The insistence on a literal, physical, bodily resurrection is killing the conservative Church. The denial...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Still Time

For Lent, I was going write about Lent. Well and often. And then, I found...

March 11, 2015

Unlaced and Undone

There was a “Kindness Assembly” at my daughter’s school today. One kid from each class...

March 09, 2015

Winter’s Dramatic Conversion

“Really,” he said, “I'm not one for sunflower and birdsong. It's just too precious, too...

March 03, 2015

The Cross We Bear: Capital Punishment and the “Worthiness” Narrative of Christianity

Christians love a conversion story. American Christians especially. Kelli Gissendaner’s is a good one. Faith leaders...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Psalm 23-and-a-Half

The Lord is my shepherd, whether I like it or not. I shall...

February 24, 2015

Dark Before Dawn: A Soundtrack for Lent

I usually put out a playlist sometime around Holy Week. But this year, I started...

February 18, 2015

Water and Ash

From dust you were born. And to dust, you will return. Is that a threat,...

February 05, 2015

Six People You Need to Forgive

Ah, the reject pile... No, not photos of people who got kicked out of new member...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

In New Skin, Again

Yes, this is what I do when I should be working on sermon notes, or...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Buzzfeed Your Soul: Which Whatever Are You?

Which Downton Abby character are you? Buzzfeed wanted to know. Ok, fine. I’ll play. I...

March 11, 2014

If My Wings Should Fail Me

I'm back among the living after a week down with the flu. Not a 24...

March 14, 2013

$*^! Jesus Says: Seeds and Weeds Edition

For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,...