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Father’s Day

Everywhere we look we see
Men and women
Boys and girls
Who are fatherless

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When Pastors Abuse their Power

Much of my Christian faith 
Has been nourished and shaped, 
Through the testimony and experience of others
They aren’t my foundation

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Discovery

Your first encounter was a whisper. Mysterious, I called you and you came. Welcomed as my child into my very being, not withholding anything…

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Victimhood

Victim. Can you step into that space, just for a bit? I know you’re scared. It can be such a confining word. Or perhaps, on that will restrict…

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Loneliness

Loneliness, she is your friend. Do not fear her. Though the ache is crushing and the temptation to dismiss her grand, she is longing, hidden within…

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Hoarding Power

Power, a gift from God, distributed in pieces to the world. Embedded in the garden so that together, with him, we might rule and subdue…

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George Floyd

I wonder what our brother George Floyd thought as he sat and watched the news unfold of Ahmaud’s murder…

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Jeremiah 5

Is there anyone who is prepared to speak the truth and weep as another black brother and sister lay dead, murdered in the street?…

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Repentance

Repentance. It’s not quite like being a child standing before your parents. “Fess up, what have you done?” The scolding father asks…

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Unity is Solidarity

Unity. It’s as real as flesh and blood. God did not step back and wait to abstractly create a people for himself, but through the covenant…

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Sacred Union

At first I met you in the mystery of holy transformation when I exchanged my robe for your dirty rags. Glorious was that day…

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Beauty

I need beauty to remain rooted in suffering. When all that’s left is ash, the camp destroyed, mothers wailing, children wandering…

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Can the Wealthy Follow Jesus?

Can the wealthy of this world find Jesus? Can the powerful come to him? Yes, but the call is not merely to encounter him, but to follow…

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Kingdom Vision

Give me a vision of your kingdom. I want eyes to see your people, glorious, unhindered by lies. Freedom to love, abundance flows…

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Beloved Communion

Enter the gates of this beloved communion, where you find the marvelous saints, displaced and hungry. Short life and cold nights…

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