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October 2023

October 14, 2023

The Year of the Locust: A Sermon on War

Today I have war on my mind. A week ago, a surprise attack on Jewish...

February 2023

February 15, 2023

The Flood: Our Gospel for an Age of Planetary Emergency

The Genesis flood: one of the archetypal stories of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. A...

December 2022

December 28, 2022

What I’ve Been Reading Lately: End of the Year Books (2022)

Now and then I post annotated bibliographies of the reading I've doing lately. Here are...

December 13, 2022

Advent Is When Christians Talk about Hope. But Is There Any?

Advent, the Christian liturgical season leading up to Christmas, is the time when songs and...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

A New Theology for Thanksgiving

As I load the car, like millions of other Americans, for a long road trip...

November 14, 2022

Naming the God of the Night Sky

Hello readers! I mentioned earlier in the fall that I'd be stepping away from my...

October 2022

October 02, 2022

The Bento Box Rule of Life

If you were to look through my journals over the last few years, you would...

September 2022

September 21, 2022

Resonating the Mountain: Some Good Ecotheology in The Rings of Power

I am, like many of you, watching The Rings of Power, basically as soon as Amazon...

July 2022

July 15, 2022

Two Summer Poems

This past week I've been homemaking. Cooking, hosting family. Saying my prayers while watching the...

June 2022

June 26, 2022

My Date with Rowan William

Last week I had the pleasure of talking theology, literature, and ecology with Rowan Williams....

April 2022

April 27, 2022

Rivers of Belonging: Thoughts from the Borderland

At Home by the Water Rivers make good boundaries. Not so much for keeping unwanted...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Heaven for Animals?

Do Dogs Go To Heaven? Last week I received a very serious and very sad...

March 26, 2022

Farming and Salvation

"At Plainsong Farm, God is remaking Christianity. And we get to be part of that."...

February 2022

February 19, 2022

What Fish Teach Me about Forgiveness

Forgiveness is front and center in any theology worth its name. How does it occur...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

Holy Leisure and the Climate Emergency

Should we prefer the active or the contemplative life? My students and I have been...

October 13, 2021

Can a Place Make Us Holy?

Is there theological significance to belonging to a place? This question is on my mind...