Transfiguration of the Lord (Year 2, NL)

It got stolen, and I got scared.

The church is made of people. But they need a home.

What does it mean to have a Savior?

Jesus' lesson in large-hearted theology

We can ignore the Satan stuff, or we can address it.

You've got to feel bad for Peter.

Strange things are happening on this mountain.

In the late 70s, two friends of mine housesat for the poet James Merrill—and got out his Ouija board.

I'm a bit of a congregational song nerd, and the church music folks I know talk about things like "sound pools" and "heart songs."

Sound pools are what Mennonite musician, teacher, and hymnologist Mary Oyer and her students (who became my teachers) describe as the body of music that a culture or community shares.

For there to be a heresy about the cross, there would have to be an orthodoxy about it. Michael Gorman argues that contentions over how Jesus saves lead to an inadequate grasp of what the Passion means and does.

In my lectionary columns and posts for the first two weeks in Lent, I am suggesting the Lenten theme of covenant. God’s plan of salvation is founded on a faithful relationship extended over time and space.

Over the past 20-plus years in my own faith journey, the Bible’s anthropology has taken primacy for me over its theology, providing a crucial reason for the importance of covenant to salvation. René Girard’s work proposes that what has “saved” us as a species—thus far—are the false gods of our own unconscious creation.