Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: The church under the cross

Bonhoeffer imagines the church “under the cross.” So too our gospel reading for today turns our faces toward the cross and dares to reimagine what it means, just as we are being called to reimagine the Church and what it means in this time and place.

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Speaking to the Soul: All we like crocuses

We are like crocuses in the brown flower beds. The children of God are something special. We are heirs, joint heirs with Christ, of God’s freedom and glory. Pushing our way into the light we bring to the world color that has never been seen before. We are meant for nothing less than setting the world free from its bondage to decay.

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Speaking to the Soul: Too much?

The giving of our time, talents, and treasure is great–but giving to the place where we are hollow, exhausted, and empty ignores God’s good creation in ourselves, and leads to the sin of self-diminishment or self-negation at the expense of others.

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