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Book Preview: Something Beyond Nothing?
Information about Brian Niece’s book, Something Beyond Nothing?: The God We Don’t Yet Know
Benediction: All Our Pain | A Liminal Advent | Part 4
A Liminal Advent doesn’t allow me to glibly declare that after a certain amount of waiting God will come into our pain and heal it all.
Affirmation: Togetherness | A Liminal Advent | Part 3
A liminal Advent encourages and challenges us to experience togetherness with those not like us. Because we need each other. All the each others.
Confession: We Don’t Have Our Stuff Together | A Liminal Advent | Part 2
When we give ourselves the freedom to question during a liminal Advent, without expecting ready and complete answers, we may learn that our house isn’t entirely in order. But are we brave enough to confess such a thing?
Invocation: Questions | A Liminal Advent | Part 1
What if we have forgotten, or perhaps never explored, the stuff of Advent beyond our established boundaries? What if a liminal Advent is more authentic?
Backleading
Backleading: A Poem. The prelude began on a Nashville night; The first movement ended on a Mississippi highway.
Jesus Messes Everything Up
Jesus is the pre-eminent interpreter of scripture. And in one instance he injects one interpretive word into one familiar theological statement, and we still haven’t recovered.
Confession of a Recovering Pastor
Does the system of religion have much to do with following Jesus? Here’s a confession from a recovering pastor about this very thing.
The Antonym of Me: A Lenten Confession
Do you ever feel like the antonym of all you want to be? Flawed, helpless, ineffective, uninspired, failed? Maybe there is something to be discovered in the space between where we are and where we want to be.
The Good Muslim: A Parable
One day, a religious expert wanted to test Jesus, so he asked, “How do I experience God-quality life?”
Jesus answered, as he so often did, with a question, “What do you see in your own texts; how do you interpret them?”
Why Jesus Was, and Still Is, a Refugee
There are two primary uses of the “Jesus was/was not a refugee” argument that I’ve seen written about extensively. And this is not just a current context thing. These arguments have been around for decades.
Gumballs, Immigrants, and the God We Don’t Yet Know
With the current immigration policy debate in US America, there is a particular video lecture circulating social media that involves gumballs. What's disheartening to me, is that I see it posted mostly by friends and acquaintances who are privileged, white American...