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May 2013

May 07, 2013

Indignant Jesus

People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples...

May 03, 2013

Will Steger

Have you ever heard of Will Steger? I first read about him in Bob Dotson’s...

May 02, 2013

Learning to Dance Again

One of the four lectionary scriptures for last Sunday was from the book of Revelation....

May 01, 2013

Church Real Estate: Blessing or Curse

Surely you know the hand game, 'Here's the church and here's the steeple, look inside and...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Let Home Find You

The say you can't go home again. Although I know what Thomas Wolfe meant, I'm...

April 26, 2013

When is a Death Not a Death?

The Dalai Lama says that, while he knows nothing about death, not having died, that...

April 25, 2013

Twelve Prayers for People Who Don’t Pray

PREFACE "Our Father for Unbelievers," “Our Father, if you exist, I dare to turn to...

April 24, 2013

Live it. Today.

I recently had breakfast with the pastor of a large congregation in Atlanta. Towards the...

April 23, 2013

Psalm 23

Last week was difficult. We saw tragic violence in the Boston bombings, reminding us that...

April 22, 2013

One week after Boston

A week ago, we all were deeply shaken by bombs exploding at the end of...

April 18, 2013

My Sheep

Jesus said, "I give my sheep eternal life, and they will never perish. No one...

April 16, 2013

Good Samaritans

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me;...

April 15, 2013

Today’s Syrophoenician Women

But a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and...

April 12, 2013

Doubt is Where the Story is

While researching my sermon for last Sunday, I came across an article written by Lisa...

April 11, 2013

WHEN IS A GATE NOT A GATE

Around 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 2006 a silver 2002 Saturn with New Jersey plates...

April 09, 2013

Easter Maybes

I used to call the people who come to services on only the highest of...

April 08, 2013

Protecting Our Children: Common Sense Gun Safety Laws

The journey to what the Children's Defense Fund calls "common sense gun safety laws" will...

April 05, 2013

The Faithful’s Doubt is our Saving Grace

This week as I was researching my sermon for Sunday, I came across as article...

April 04, 2013

If it is not alright, it is not yet the end

In my Easter sermon, I used an illustration that I suspect many savvy pastors around...

April 03, 2013

Suppers After the Resurrection

Consecrating communion on Easter Sunday is tough. You don't want to remind people of the...

April 01, 2013

50 Shades of Grace

It wasn't that I didn't want to be a pastor again. I love preaching; I...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Ever heard of Holy Tuesday?

Holy Tuesday. Never heard of it? Well, today you are living one. It is the...

March 25, 2013

Holy week should be a time of spiritual intensity

Most people call this week Holy Week, though pastors often jokingly refer to it as...

March 25, 2013

Retelling the Story of Marriage and Families

Marriage Equality is an emerging story useful to both same sex and the “one man

March 20, 2013

The Blessings That We Refuse

The Blessings That We Refuse by Donna Schaper Immigrants are a blessing, not a curse....

March 14, 2013

When it comes to justice, revenge is not a worthy/healthy outcome.

Yesterday I talked about restorative justice as an alternative to our current system of punitive...

March 13, 2013

Very few Christians seem to care about true prodigals

When I was the president of Hope for Peace & Justice (www.h4pj.org) we worked hard...

March 12, 2013

Expressions of compassion are not passive

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once told about a contest he was asked to judge....

March 11, 2013

We cannot ignore the holocaust of mass incarceration

In a recently published book “Invisible Men: Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress,” researcher,...

March 11, 2013

Whatever happens, give thanks

James Moore tells a story in one of his books about being invited after a...