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When I read the story of Moses and the burning bush, I wonder what it might have been like to be Moses that day.  The story says that when Moses saw the burning bush, the messenger from God, he was amazed and said to himself, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight,Continue reading “Moses, the Burning Bush, and Hearing God’s Call to Justice”

Just one third of the way through Matthew’s gospel, in chapter 10, Jesus sends out his newly gathered disciples and prepares them to go out to the lost sheep of Israel, to their own communities and their own people, and preach the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the first half of thisContinue reading ““Not Peace, But a Sword”: Jesus’ Call to Have Uncomfortable Conversations About Race”

Today it feels harder than ever to wrap our minds around “the truth.” With the constant barrage of “alternative facts,” claims of “fake news,” and a seemingly endless feed of Twitter and Facebook bots filling our screens with misleading claims about both politics and pandemics, its hard to decipher what is true and what isContinue reading “Following the Spirit of Truth in an Age of Distrust”

The annual celebration of Mother’s Day always brings the experience of death close to my heart. My mother died on November 18, 2008, when I was 20 years old, and I did everything in my power to not feel the pain of her death.  I had developed brilliant coping mechanisms in order to do that,Continue reading “Death Is Sweeter Than Miss, It Is Longer Than Gone”

Last week we began exploring what it means in this Easter season, in a world filled with death and its painful fallout on all sides, to say that Jesus “took away the sting of death.” The phrase “the sting of death” comes from Paul at the end of his first letter to the church inContinue reading “Death Still Has Power, But Not As A Tool for Oppression”

Did you celebrate Easter last week? I gathered with my church community via live-stream to celebrate Jesus’ “victory over death” (Book of Common Prayer, pg. 285) and how his resurrection “took away the sting of death” (Book of Common Prayer, pg. 504). And today, 2,000 more people are going to die from the coronavirus alone,Continue reading “Easter Came, and Everything Still Hurts”

The tag line for this blog is “a theology of hope and suffering,” a constant tension that we find weaving its way through scripture, in every episode of hurt and healing, challenge and triumph, death and resurrection. One of these episodes, where we see Jesus stand firmly in this divine tension, is the familiar storyContinue reading “The Divine Dance of Hope and Suffering”

Last night California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide mandate that people stay at home until further notice in a continued attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus over the next weeks and months. As of this morning, the governors of Illinois and New York have issued similar mandates, with potentially more to come.Continue reading ““Stay at Home”: Finding Our Deepest Connection, Beyond Physical Proximity”

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One of the most powerful and mysterious stories from the Gospels is that of Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountaintop before three of his disciple; Pete, James, and John. In this story, Jesus leads his three followers up on a mountain and before their eyes his clothes become dazzling white and his face shines and suddenly,Continue reading “A Vision from the Mountaintop: Fulfilling the Dreams of Moses and Martin Luther King, Jr.”