Love Liberates 09 Feb, 2016 Men trapped under cruel taskmasters in the brickyards of Egypt and women losing still-swaddled sons to the watery grave of the Great River. Land, livestock and freedom… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Leaning Into Lent 05 Feb, 2016 Before too long we will wake to Ash Wednesday, bowing our heads and remembering that from dust we came, and to dust we shall return. We will… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Black History Month Reading 31 Jan, 2016 A friend posted this on social media: “White privilege is your history being part of the core curriculum and mine being taught as an elective.” I keep… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
A Little Liberation 25 Jan, 2016 So it has occurred to me recently as I reviewed my own personal library that I might be a liberation theologian. Dozens of titles in my collection… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Wake Up! to Jubilee 15 Jan, 2016 This week my friends at Red Letter Christians invited me to offer their Wake Up! morning devotions. These are designed to be quick reflections to start your… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Why Are You Talking of Having No Bread? 12 Jan, 2016 Jesus had just multiplied a few loaves of bread into enough to satiate the hunger of thousands of men, women and children. Baskets of leftovers sat on… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
A Blessing for What Is 30 Dec, 2015 Fear Not, says every angel and many a prophet. Into our terrain of terror, general or specific, the salvation oracle begins with this imperative. Love, you command.… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Twelve Candles 29 Dec, 2015 My son stands on the threshold of twelve. And I shudder. I should beam with maternal pride at the young man he is growing into with each… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
A Widening Light… 04 Dec, 2015 A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation, edited by Luci Shaw, is one of my favorite collections of poetry, and the one I hold close during Advent.… Share:FacebookTwitteremail
Advent (& Christmas) Reading 27 Nov, 2015 The shelves are heavy laden with volumes, large and small, on Christmas. There are a growing number on Advent, too. But each year I tend to return… Share:FacebookTwitteremail