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We just can’t leave … ANYTHING … alone
The Super Bowl was played last week and, of course, the big conversation revolved around the ads. It’s always been a big thing. Still my favorite from “way back in the day” is a Pepsi commercial where you see the landscape of the desert and hear music that is somewhat soothing, but also some irritating receptive noise that keeps repeating.…
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The clash of cultures
This year Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day were on the same day. The last time that happened was 2018. The juxtaposition of those two events are odd enough, but throw in this: In 2018 there was the mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida. This year there was a mass shooting at the end of the victory celebration for…
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Ash Wednesday
6 Isn’t this the fast I choose: releasing wicked restraints, untying the ropes of a yoke, setting free the mistreated, and breaking every yoke?
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Understanding true “enemies”
I came across this quote from NT Wright as I am studying 1 Peter:
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Lessons in Epiphany
We are in this liminal space from the last Sunday in Epiphany to Ash Wednesday. It is a space of transition. A shift is happening.
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Rough waters are ahead
I would say we are about to “navigate rough waters ahead” in this time in history, but I don’t know if we understand what that means. Nevertheless, this from David Brooks:
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Where I currently find “home”
I am going through notes for a book I want to write on Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship (what we’ve called The Cost of Discipleship in American publishing), the Book of Revelation, and the prophetic call they give concerning White Christian Nationalism.
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The difference between social media “action” and action
It is one thing to teach theology (like Niebuhr, Barth, Tillich, and most theologians) in the safe environs of a classroom and quite another to live one’s theology in a situation that entails the risk of one’s life. (Martin Luther) King agreed fully with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Christian pastor hanged in 1945 by the Nazis for resisting Hitler: “When Christ…
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Moderates and the South
James Cone recounted the support Blacks had from Reinhold Niebuhr, possibly the greatest theologian of the 20th Century. Niebuhr wrote of the plight of the Black American with fair consistency. But Cone is critical of Niebuhr for holding back when it counted.
