As the E.B. White watched his wife Katherine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life, he wrote, “there was some thing comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance...the small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the...
We, of the majority caste, are largely innocents. By "innocent" I mean clueless about the way history has privileged some and impoverished others. If we are to move toward a future beyond the fatal consequence of our transgressions, we must lose our innocence. We have...
God oversees not simply the creation of a person but the creation of a personality, the creation of an identity, the creation of a physicality, the creation of it all. And He has done so purposefully.---------------------------------Gender-neutral version: God...
I give myself completely to you, God.Assign me to my place in your creation.Let me suffer for you.Give me the work you would have me do.Give me many tasksOr have me step aside while you call others.Put me forward or humble me.Give me riches or let me live in poverty.I...
God is always waiting to be born. And so it is. The magic of Christmas is the magic of our rebirthing God into the world for the sake of peace and goodwill to all creation. Divine birth is both painful and beautiful, as all births are. But this is our part in the...
[W]e ought to embrace disabled bodies as a gift from God that both reveals divine action in the world and expands the fullness of image-bearing creation. from My Disabled Body Proclaims the Gospel
You are above me O GodYou are beneathYou are in airYou are in earthYou are beside meYou are within.O God of heaven,you have made your home on EarthIn the broken body of CreationKindle within mea love for you in all things. from Celtic Prayers from Iona
I am a pastor. My work has to do with God and souls--intense mysteries that no one has ever seen at any time....I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of...