The story of Jesus healing a centurion’s slave hits one of the deepest notes of the Way of Jesus: the equality of all people in the eyes of God. We can take that lesson to heart by addressing the exclusion and oppression that folks with unpopular gender identities are now facing.
Are you feeling, maybe, a little Lent-ed out already?
The story of the Transfiguration is not a mere collection of facts. It’s a legend that rings with truths.
I wrote and arranged this song about the real Gulf of America. Maybe someday I’ll do a music video for it. For now, I just want to get the song out there.
If it speaks to you, please share.
Bright blessings, Merry Mystics!
In Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, he gives some pretty plain teachings. Why do we act as if we’re excused from listening to them?
Prayers for everyday occasions—like Rabbi Irwin Keller’s prayer for watching the news—help us to be recollected in God throughout the day.
Offending the spirit of tribalism is never a safe thing to do.
Right in the middle of one of his apostolic smackdowns, Paul sings us a love song.
Psalm 19 teaches humility—the wisdom to know that we are all fallible, that we can’t always detect our own errors. Like respectfulness, truthfulness, and mercy, humility isn’t weak, as Bishop Budde reminded us last week. You can leave space for the possibility that you might be wrong, but still take a stand for the things you believe are right.
There’s a gap between Martin Luther King’s dream for America and the reality of America. No, not just a gap: more like a gulf.