A Good Day
Esther 8:15-9:19
By Amber Noel
What makes for a good day? A walk in the park with your dog? Stopping by the café for a hot doughnut and a cup o’ joe? A day when all the to-dos are checked off, your bills ar... Read More...
Body, Broken
Violence, Trauma, and the Eucharist
Content warning: violence, trauma, abuse.
By Hannah King
Two years ago my brother died violently. I did not witness the end of his life, but a vision of it was painted... Read More...
On Apocalyptic Mobs
By Mark Perkins
“He who holds to the truth holds to God.”
— Romano Guardini
A mob is an apocalypse, a conflagration casting fiery light on what was previously in shadow.
On August 12, 2017, we watched scenes of violence in Charlottesville posted to Twit... Read More...
Fossil fuels, the Church, and modern values
British historian Ian Morris argues that human values depend upon our methods of energy capture and storage.
On the beach with Rogue One
Star Wars was certainly not the fullness of the Christian hope and faith, but a new light was shining in a culture that had only 11 years before celebrated the “Death of God” on the cover of Time.
Minnesota anger and the angry God
Anger can be just, but hatred and indiscriminate revenge never can be.
Faith and hope after the Louisiana flood
A few days after the flooding started, I met an elderly African American lady who had lost everything. She looked me in the eyes and said: “I think God wants to use this to bring us all together.”
Reading on Dallas, religion, and race
As a white vicar in a diverse Dallas congregation, I have had much to learn and try to understand in these difficult days.