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Room to Move
Our daily reflection for the last week of the Easter season can be found here. This moving thing is a grind. A couple weeks ago I talked about how strange it was to categorize our things. Lots of our...
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The Mother God
Be sure to read our weekly reflection. A lot of this post comes from the book I link there. I have always known it to be true, but this past Sunday I realized what a true super hero my wife is. For...
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Quiet Pentecosts
“For all who are led by Spirit of God are children of God.” (Romans 8:14) It’s one of my favorite stories in the Bible. The day of Pentecost when the Spirit of God comes with a mighty wind and showed...
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Preparing Our Soil
As I read Trevor’s excellent post yesterday about garden weeds, I was struck by a couple of things. First is how many times agrarian metaphors are used in Scripture. There are stories and analogies all...
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Separation Anxiety: Why It’s Better with Jesus Gone
I’ve worked with kids and families long enough to see it hundreds of times. You know the scene, too. A mom or a dad goes to drop their kid off at Bible class (or the nursery or school or day care) and...
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Pentecost: What Does This Mean?
It’s one of the great scenes in the Bible. A sound like a mighty wind filling the room. Flames sitting on the tops of heads. Uneducated men suddenly speaking in languages that they hadn’t known the...
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Living as Pentecost People
No wonder God chose this, of all days, to pour out his Spirit. Pentecost, or Shevuot in Hebrew, was a Jewish harvest festival often referred to as the “Festival of Weeks” in the Old Testament (Exodus...
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The Slow, Steady Process of Growth
I was shocked over the last month to see how the sport of soccer caught on in this country. Perhaps you were too as you witnessed the large crowds that gathered in places like Chicago, New York and...
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Persecution and Comfortable Christianity
The final beatitude is one which as white, middle-class American I don’t think I can have an opinion. Yet I think it is worth exploring because it really gets at the problem of comfortable, middle...
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Out of Sorts: Speaking in Tongues with Sarah
Sarah talks this week about her experiences and understandings of the charismatic movement of the Church. With the exception of one service in 8th grade, everything I know about charismatic churches is...
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