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March 2017

March 01, 2017

Ashes, Ashes

Last week I received several expressions of gratitude for making myself available to impose ashes...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Overcome by Faith

Matthew 17:1-9 Transfiguration Early in my career I was responsible for planning and leading a...

February 21, 2017

Some Uncomfortable Words

Just last week I participated in a panel of guests discussing religion and advocacy in...

February 21, 2017

Praying in Dark Days

Having trouble finding the right words? Here's last Sunday's prayer prayed by Riverside's Minister of...

February 19, 2017

The Hardest Commandment

Matthew 5:38-48 This week the senior staff spent a day and a half in intensive...

February 13, 2017

Praying in Dark Days

The following is a pastoral prayer written and delivered in Sunday worship by my excellent...

February 12, 2017

Magical Thinking

Matthew 5:13-20 2017 is bound to be a tough year for folks who are superstitious. ...

February 07, 2017

Taking Jesus Seriously

If your church follows the Revised Common Lectionary you will know that in these weeks...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Executive Order

Matthew 25:35-40 My name is Max Wolff. The US turned me away at...

January 24, 2017

Pink Hats, Posters, and The Choice We Make Now

I ran into someone the other day who had just returned from the women’s march...

January 22, 2017

Together

Exodus 1:8-20; Matthew 4:12-23 Here’s what I learned this week: sometimes being nasty is the same...

January 19, 2017

Dawn Is Breaking

Isaiah 49:1-7 I was trying to think where I was on this night eight years...

January 15, 2017

Brave

John 1:29-42 For these weeks on Sunday mornings we’re doing the work of worship: hoping...

January 14, 2017

The Work of Worship, Matthew 3:13-17

When they teach us to plan worship and preach in seminary one of the first...

January 10, 2017

Resolved

We’re just over a week in to the new year and based on my Facebook...

January 08, 2017

Beloved

Matthew 3:13-17 A few years ago I went to a wedding shower at which all...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Again, A Meditation for Christmas Eve

(**This meditation was inspired by Bishop Will Willimon’s column Christmas: Herod in Trouble) Well, here...

December 18, 2016

As If…We Had the Courage to Go Somewhere New

Matthew 1:18–25 On December 8, just 10 days ago, Senator John Glenn died...

December 13, 2016

Welcoming an Atheist at Church

This piece was originally written in January 2014. Early in my pastoral work I found myself...

December 04, 2016

As If…We Believed the Prophets

Matthew 3:1-12 Every year during the third week of January, I like to repost on...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Election is Over. Stop the Silence.

Objectively speaking, there has been very little in the political world that one might call...

November 27, 2016

As If…We Were Paying Attention

Matthew 24:36-44 It’s known in church history circles as the Great Disappointment. Followers of Baptist...

November 20, 2016

What Will Save Us

Luke 1:68-79 I don’t know how it was at YOUR house on Thanksgiving Day, but...

November 16, 2016

Birthed

Below are some excerpts from the forward I wrote to Elizabeth Hagan's new book, Birthed....

November 15, 2016

Meeting in the Ladies’ Room

Amy Butler and Leslie Copeland-Tune Okay, ladies. Huddle up. We’re having this meeting in the...

November 13, 2016

What Will Destroy Us

Luke 21:5-19 1905 there was a very passionate young librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library...

November 10, 2016

Poetry Corner

Zero Circle Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will...

November 09, 2016

God Showed Up: A Meditation for the Day After

Today I walked into the building and got in an elevator with a group...

November 06, 2016

Reflections

All Saints' Day Ephesians 1:11-23 On Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of taking the...

November 01, 2016

We Have to Start Telling Our Truths

So here’s how last week went down for me. It actually all began almost two...

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