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Yearning to breathe free

May 1, 2016 No Comments

The words on Liberty’s pedestal were always a hope, an almost eschatological vision of who we hoped to be and what we intended to be for the rest of the world…
Is this about our hypocrisy or about our becoming? Certainly the freedom we live is deeply incomplete so long as it doesn’t belong to all of us. Biblically and theologically, it’s also incomplete if “freedom” is simply opportunity for unhampered exercise of our own whim and protection of fiercely held opinions and judgments of others from any criticism or constraints.

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Kneading our daily bread

May 1, 2016 No Comments

When I ask for “my daily bread” what is underneath my request of God in “The Lord’s Prayer” is not simply bread, but the kind of real honesty which bread implies. Give me integrity – a real thing being a real thing. Let me be real by knowing who I am, knowing what I want

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place, holiness and loss

April 24, 2016 2 Comments

Yet, I also wonder whether this place-based holiness isn’t a bit like an analog watch, needing its spring to be wound again and again. Some places are probably so deeply imbued with spiritual energy that their unwinding might take centuries or millennia, the locations of Jesus’ life and death perhaps, or pilgrimage trails like the Camino de Santiago. But other places, like parish churches or summer camp chapels seem to need an ongoing encounter to sustain them or the thin place comes to be clouded and not so thin anymore.

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The warm spots

April 24, 2016 No Comments

So we pray. And we meet God and He shows up and warms us, slowly, sometimes even imperceptibly. We wait on Her to show up and we sit, seeking warmth.

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separate, silent, polite and smoldering

April 17, 2016 1 Comment

Despair. We all face it from time to time but it is the big secret. We all carry it around with us like loose change, aware it is making a slight noise when we walk, but not really having the energy to pull it out

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Faith Reels: ‘Allegiant’ … finally, the truth

April 15, 2016 6 Comments

This week’s film review is the next chapter in the divergent series. There’s not much hope in films like these, yet young people are repeatedly drawn to them. Maybe that should tell people of faith that the Gospel message of hope and the unlikely power of love over death should be shared more widely.

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