I love the Bible. I have spent more than half of my life reading it, studying it, teaching and preaching it. While I do not find every word of it as inspiring (or inspired) as some of my fellow Christians do, I encounter God in it reliably enough to commit myself on a...
The Bible is a means of divine self-disclosure. The traditional theological phrase for this is “the Bible is the revelation of God.” In the Bible, as the foundation of the Christian cultural-linguistic world, Christians find the disclosure of God—not because the Bible...
Advent is about relationships. The three-way relationship of loving God and neighbor and self is what makes us a “hallelujah from head to toe.”
Christ will come expected or unexpected, when God is ready, even while we are loudly demanding signs and proofs which close our hearts and minds to the Wildness of Love.
What help is it to me that Mary is full of grace, if I am not also full of grace? And what help is it to me that the Father gives birth to his Son unless I, too, give birth to him? It is for this reason that God gives birth to his Son and lies in the maternity bed so...
With that we are faced with the shocking reality: Jesus stands at the door and knocks, in complete reality. He asks you for help in the form of a beggar, in the form of a ruined human being in torn clothing. He confronts you in every person that you meet. He walks on...
Christmas is about those God moments when we muster enough courage to greet, embrace, and even step into the darkness that is killing us. It is to risk seeing that glimmer of light. It is about stepping into that dark room between or within us and to risk stumbling...
We think we have to make Christmas come, which is to say we have to bring about the redemption of the universe on our own. When all God needs is a willing womb, a place of safety, nourishment, and love… What if, instead of doing something, we were to be something...
The birth of Christ in our souls is for a purpose beyond ourselves: it is because his manifestation in the world must be through us. Every Christian is, as it were, part of the dust-laden air which shall radiate the glowing epiphany of God, catch and reflect his...