Essential Workers: The Lowest Paid And Lowest Status Among Us
Am just wondering: do you see the same pattern I see as I consider our essential workers? Effectively, they are the lowest paid and lowest status people around. Most have little job security; many are...
View ArticleWill The Church Survive The Covid-19 Damage? No, But This Is The Time For...
Will the church survive the Covid-19 damage? Probably not. But the massive uncertainties that just about the entire world now faces also call for massive infusions of creativity, hope, service, and...
View ArticleLet Your Yes Be Yes: The Damage of Church Lies
Jesus said, “let your yes be yes, and your no be no.” Following through on promises counts–don’t make them if you can’t keep them. Truth frees; lies enslave. Late in 2019, I entered the joy of multiple...
View ArticleEight Lessons and Blessings From COVID
It’s time we recognize the multiple lessons and blessings from Covid. From this growing national tragedy, we can actually emerge wiser and stronger if we take a hard look at ourselves and see what we...
View ArticleThe Messiness Of Spring And The Hope Of Resurrection
The messiness of spring hits me as I survey the aftermath of winter death. It also offers insight, filling me with longing for the Resurrection. My soul longs for the magic of the resurrection, but I...
View ArticleThe UMC Must Die To Have Any Hope Of Life
My idealist vision of the hope of life after death? We acknowledge and act on the reality that the prophetic word of God emerges more from the uncomfortably marginalized than from the comfortably...
View ArticleSix Reasons We Always Break A New Year Resolution
Let our major New Year resolution be to look for the sacred in everything, even the flaws we think we have that need to be “corrected.” Our flaws could be someone else’s blessings. We are now in the...
View ArticleThe Split Peace Lily And The Split UMC
Four years ago, I split an overcrowded peace lily (Spathiphyllum). They’re common plants, often sent to funerals, and I’ve had this one for a long time. It desperately needed to be broken apart,...
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