It’s August and that means the best part of the summer is upon us. (I’m a big fan of the latter part of summer.) I’m going to be off for much of this month, and otherwise occupied with some weekend events for the rest. Rather than recycle some old sermons, I’m going to just ask your forbearance for the next four weeks or so. I hope wherever you are, you’re going to get a chance […]
The parables point to a reality that must of us only experience tangentially. It's not surprising that they seem paradoxical - but the point of them is the pondering they invite.
Learning requires effort and living into a time of confusion. Spiritual growth, similarly, requires friction. The parables are the technology that Jesus uses to do just that.
There is more going on in Jesus' teaching than first meets the eye. It only becomes clear though after study and discipleship.
God isn’t scanning our credentials; God is asking who our friends are. Who do we recognize? Who do we receive? To who do we hand even a cup of cold water?
Ishmael is not a mistake to be cleaned up, he has his own destiny. We imagine that our story is the only one that matters. But that's not true for the God who made all Creation.
He called the nameless one, daughter, and he calls us by the same name.
The encyclical released this week is being characterized primarily as a Critique of AI. But to be frank it’s not so much of AI as of the economics, and particularly the disparity between wealth and poverty that is behind AI’s rise. And also of the exploitation of people, the environment and the spiritual realm that seems to be happening too. Parenthetically: The Encyclical is mostly about the terrifying ways we are abusing power and the […]
The Tower of Babel at its core is a critique of human desire that is separate from God’s action. When nations work their human designs, they are destined to fail. The Day of Pentecost is the recasting of that story.
The Ascension, properly understood, says something startling about your body. About your memory. About the specific and particular history that has made you who you are at this moment.
