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June 2018

June 24, 2018

A Prayer for the Living of These Days

Lord, we’re here today looking for respite, relief, repair…something, anything, that will lead us safely...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Dressing Up Faith

Earlier this week I spent a few hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art wandering...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Invitation, a Meditation for Maundy Thursday

It’s been 15 years since Fred Rogers died. To be honest, I never really knew...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: Women Wage Peace

“We have had enough. All we want is this: we want you to come to...

January 17, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: We Have a Dream

This week in particular it seems appropriate to continue reporting on the #HolyWomenHolyLand trip with...

January 14, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: The Key

One of the people we met on this trip told us: “The two most dangerous...

January 14, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: In Her Own Words

On Monday we started our day in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally...

January 13, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: “It’s Complicated”

“If you save one life, you save the whole world.—Talmud” On Monday we started diving...

January 13, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: Triumphal Nationalism & Secret Longing…the Powerful Words of Israeli Women

It was Sunday morning, and some of the group went to church. I did not. ...

January 12, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: Balagan

At lunch on Saturday, Shabbat, our Jewish sisters gave us an in-depth history of Israel,...

January 10, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: I Come to the Garden…With a Whole Group of Holy Women

We, ironically, began our interfaith tour at yet another very Christian place: the Garden of...

January 09, 2018

#HolyWomenHolyLand: Jesus Tour

The next few posts are reflections on a trip to Israel/Palestine this month. Follow me...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

How to Survive in Today’s America: Become an Evangelical

I proudly call myself an evangelical, though some argue that point with me. The bottom...

September 2017

September 11, 2017

A Prayer for Sunday

by Michael Livingston, Executive Minister God of wind and rain, sun and moon, peaks...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

Goodbyes: A Meditation for Maundy Thursday

I think that one of the hardest and most beautiful parts of being human is...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Truth in a Post-Fact World

These days the words of the Psalmist keep coming to mind: “I will lift up my...

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 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 07, 2017

Taking Jesus Seriously

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

January 2017

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 10, 2017

Resolved

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

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...

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 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...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Bread on the Water

In April 2015 I gave the closing address at Faith Forward in Chicago. It ended...

August 2016

August 28, 2016

People Are Watching

Luke 14:1; 7-14 When I was in seminary I had a professor who taught us...

August 23, 2016

Bent Over

You would think that after preaching almost four cycles of the Revised Common Lectionary a...

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