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January 2022

January 25, 2022
I’ve Been a Grump As a good Mennonite, I recognize the need to channel my...
January 23, 2022
I don't like Normal. That's not a surprise. Over the past two weeks I have...

December 2021

December 31, 2021
Warning. This is a rant. I'm tired of Evangelicals. Perhaps, more specifically, contemporary Evangelicalism. Can...
December 10, 2021
You will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation (Isaiah 12.4) There’s an...

November 2021

November 26, 2021
This is late coming out. Advent is nearly here. Then many folks think about Black...
November 11, 2021
Being Reminded of Who You Are I knew I enjoyed coaching. But I had hardly...

October 2021

October 01, 2021
Everyone lives amid loss. And not one person can put a measure to the weight...

September 2021

September 23, 2021
Each generation has ways to mark time. Marking time, like marking distances, recalls and reorients...
September 15, 2021
Truth matters. We say so. But we lie every day and some lie a lot....

April 2021

April 16, 2021
C S Lewis repeats what a woman of his acquaintance told him: that as a...

December 2020

December 02, 2020
Between These Heights In, For the Life of the World, Volf and Croasmun describe the...

November 2020

November 16, 2020
Jesus is not the person you thought you knew Preaching from the lectionary forces one...

October 2020

October 15, 2020
Normal is gone. It seemed to be here, not too long ago. But it isn't...

February 2020

February 12, 2020
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is...
February 04, 2020
Are just cheesemakers welcome in the kingdom of heaven? Or, "any manufacturers of dairy products"....

January 2020

January 29, 2020
Preaching through the Gospel of Matthew every few years is an exercise in humility. This...
January 27, 2020
Civility is lacking in public discourse. I have said this. Others have said this. Are...
January 22, 2020
The United States’ has been at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Persian or Southwest...
January 16, 2020
There’s a strangely escalated form of bravado that is commonplace. Escalation is so obvious, we...
January 04, 2020
Routines he continued to go to his house...and to get down on his knees three...
January 01, 2020
What did you do over the past ten years? I fight annual celebrations. It always...

December 2019

December 12, 2019
There's a certain family resemblance between Jesus and his Mamma. Mary follows God. She will...
December 11, 2019
Advent is a season of waiting. I have used that definition often. But to a...
December 09, 2019
A familiar motif in theological conversations is the “already but not yet” motif. The coming...

November 2019

November 29, 2019
Anything that mitigates against relationships becomes something to avoid.  As a general rule, I don’t...
November 25, 2019
Preparing to wait....Wait. Isn't that the same as waiting? How does one begin to wait...
November 23, 2019
In Article 24 for Quas Primas, a pontifical encyclical, Pope Pius XI set forth the...
November 02, 2019
I think about coaching track and field a lot. But I often have a skewed...

October 2019

October 30, 2019
Have you ever had one of those experiences when you know that you don't know,...
October 21, 2019
A recent study from the Pew Research Center announces that the trend of decline continues. ...
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