The Archive

Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: Strange and Marvelous

November 2, 2016 No Comments

Can traveling ourselves, or listening to the stories of travelers, help us to praise God more fully?

Speaking to the Soul: Babylon the Great

October 31, 2016 No Comments

An image from the book of Revelation cries out for deep reform.

Speaking to the Soul: The Good Tax Collector

October 30, 2016 2 Comments

Last week we explored the ways in which we make Bible-characters — and all too often one another — into one-dimensional stereotypes. It arises from a failure to see the Imago Dei, or the Image of God, in one another.

Speaking to the Soul: Fall and beyond

October 29, 2016 No Comments

When souls are not tended carefully, they are like a plant that doesn’t get water or fertilizer. They shrivel and never reach the potential that was present when they were mere seedlings.

Speaking to the Soul: From Low to High

October 28, 2016 No Comments

The God who ascends must also be the God who descends.

Speaking to the Soul: Looking for the Holy Spirit

October 27, 2016 3 Comments

Belonging to Christ is a very real, life-changing state of being, something not to be hidden away. We must speak our truth.

Speaking to the Soul: Path to the Light

October 26, 2016 2 Comments

Our freedom to act and create can lead to wondrous things—sonnets to sonatas, novels to Nobel prizes—but it can also lead to decisions to treat others as mere objects for our convenience, to cruelty, fear-mongering, and derision.

Speaking to the Soul: Lamp of the body

October 25, 2016 3 Comments

Sometimes I worry that in the church, we pay too much attention to statistics and focus groups and expert opinions at the expense of simply looking at the people involved.

Speaking to the Soul: James of Jerusalem

October 24, 2016 2 Comments

Saint James of Jerusalem seems to have been on the losing side of some early Christian controversies. Today, can we seek to regain some of what was lost thousands of years ago?

Speaking to the Soul: American Vision

October 23, 2016 1 Comment

The sin is not that we oversimplify and stereotype Pharisees and tax collectors from long ago, the sin is that we do it to one another.