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March 2014

March 24, 2014

God in a Box

In last Sunday’s sermon, I contrasted Nicodemus’s careful faith that made him come to Jesus...

March 21, 2014

It’s Holy Saturday in The Church, Alban Reminds Us.

This week the bedrock of an era of mainline Protestantism in North America, the Alban...

March 20, 2014

Spiritual Checkups

As I write this, I am sitting through a second day of nonstop rain. It...

March 19, 2014

You Gotta Keep Dancing

Some years ago I read Tim Hansel’s book You Gotta Keep Dancing: In the midst...

March 18, 2014

Thought for the Day

Thought for the day: An object at rest tends to remain at rest...unless something comes...

March 17, 2014

Happy Hour

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. Unless you are in New York, Boston, or Savannah that may...

March 14, 2014

Perfectly Good Food and Wine

Several years ago I had a falling out with a friend over dinner. I had...

March 13, 2014

Changing Minds

For some reason, I’ve been obsessing about the difference between faith and presumption. It is...

March 12, 2014

It May be a Very Very Long Sleep

For more than a decade, Dr. Bruce Thielemann was my pastor. I listened to his...

March 11, 2014

Hope vs. Despair

In the mid-1980s, I pastored a small church in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a mostly...

March 10, 2014

False Pretenses

I’ve been listening to conservatives rail about how the United States is appearing weak in...

March 05, 2014

Matching Dolls

Last weekend Bill and I were staying in a hotel that was filled with little...

March 05, 2014

Making Room for Repentance

Someone asked me recently why it is so much easier to be vulnerable and honest...

March 04, 2014

Thought for the day

Leadership is not merely a position that describes who you are; it's about being positioned...

March 03, 2014

Take Off Your Bib and Put on Your Apron

A preacher was shaking hands as people went out of church one Sunday, and she...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Higher Standards

Those of us who follow the lectionary have spent the month of February looking at...

February 27, 2014

Cathedral of Hope

I am preaching at the Cathedral of Hope on Sunday. It is the first time...

February 26, 2014

Lofty Comandments

The assigned readings for last Sunday were tough. On the rare occasion when we are...

February 25, 2014

Love Your Enemies

People make mistakes. We all do. Jesus talked about forgiveness in the Gospel lesson we...

February 21, 2014

Uncertain, TX

When I moved to Dallas in 1987 I tried to interview every member of the...

February 20, 2014

Best Armed and Most Violent

American inventor Dr. Richard Gatling patented his most famous invention in 1862. The Gatling gun...

February 19, 2014

Lord’s Prayer

In worship around our place, we have been praying a contemporary version of the “Lord’s...

February 17, 2014

President’s Day

Today is President’s Day in the United States. When I was growing up we remembered...

February 14, 2014

St. Valentine

Today is, of course, Valentine’s Day. In the wonderful book Common Prayer: A Liturgy for...

February 13, 2014

Race Riot of 1908

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was established on this date...

February 12, 2014

Civil Regression

I am depressed. I have spent four decades in the South fighting for civil rights,...

February 11, 2014

Salt and Light Under the Covers

Yesterday, the assigned Gospel lesson included the passage “You are the salt of the earth....

February 07, 2014

Permission to Experience

During Epiphany this year, we have been singing that little John Bell chorus "Come and...

February 06, 2014

Understanding Baptism

After church on Sunday, I talked with a mother who wants to schedule her son’s...

February 05, 2014

Soul Force

In his book, Strength to Love, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King writes about the bold...