Romans 8

This passage from Paul is one that has been used to inflict pain upon LGBTQ people.

There are some matters that a well-rehearsed and repeated Bible verse won’t fix.

What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?

What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?

Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken

Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken

I was counting on her discretion.

I was counting on her discretion.

I was counting on her discretion.

Christians have long lived in denial of our deep creaturely connections.

We can be joined by our suffering, not just separated.

Honestly, it seems like our flesh has a massive design flaw.

Honestly, it seems like our flesh has a massive design flaw.

I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.

I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.

Romans 8:6–11; John 11:1–45

Romans 8:6–11; John 11:1–45

The gig seemed fairly routine. Then I saw the parrots.

An insight I gleaned from Ernest Hemingway rings true for the mainline church today.

Lutherans are trained to hear the scriptures as proclaiming either law or gospel. By "law" they mean not passages from the Old Testament but all of the Bible's bad news: the sins we commit, the misery we experience, the sorrows we inflict on one another, the death we anticipate, the distance from God that diminishes our lives. By "gospel" they mean not the final reading on Sunday morning but the good news of the mercy given by a loving God, wherever in the Bible it is proclaimed.