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Cultural Captivity – (Not) Seeing Our Own
Thinking through the implications of Peter Rollins‘ little book, The Orthodox Heretic, left me considering the ways we often miss our own “logs” when looking for others’ “specks.” There needs to be a...
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Trifle Not – Thoughts from the Edge
We always told our girls, “Give it your best effort.” Our hope was to encourage them to work hard in school or on the playing field of whatever sport they chose to play. We could tell whether or no...
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Guest Post Up Over at Pulpit2Pew
My friend Frank over at Pulpit2Pew invited me to write a “Guest Post” for his website. He offered a few suggestions and I took him up on one of them. Frank suffered the consequences of his own...
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What Separates Pastor Jones and (Insert Your Preferred Extremist)?
My favorite op-ed columnist strikes again. Leonard Pitts Jr. weighs in on the impending bonfire in Florida. Some have “Tweeted” Pastor Terry Jones will be praying about halting the now high profile...
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The Genealogy of Forgiveness – Thoughts from The Edge
Spanning the Generations Who is in your family tree? When I first read the word “genealogy” in the context of philosophy it took me a bit to overcome my default understanding of the term. Nuanced...
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The Rupture of Forgiveness In a World of Revenge
Today pastors will preach on the day the United States collectively remembers 9/11 ten years later. My sermon title for this morning is the title for this post, “The Rupture of Forgiveness In a World...
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Forgiveness Is the Key – Weekly Video with Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.” Surely the Apostle Paul gives us an ideal too great for humans to exercise. At least that is what we would think. And, many a Christian explanation seems to confirm....
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Only By Persistence and Fortitude
“How is it someone may forgive so quickly?” Considering the circumstances surrounding the events at Mother Emanuel last Wednesday evening, the questioner asks a legitimate, if not critical, question....
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Applauding the South Carolina Legislature Won’t Help Your Physique
The post really was not about weight loss. The one yesterday. Really it was not. Yesterday I wrote a piece on forgiveness that masqueraded as a post on the benefits to my knees of losing excess...
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Whose History? Whose Independence? An Interview with Alan Cross
Healthy conversation and debate suffers from the 24/7 news cycle. The shooting of the Charleston 9 stirred deep conversations about the racial history in the United States. While the conversations and...
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Ashley Madison Exposes the Limits of Personal Piety or, Don’t Blame the Hackers
Lost amidst the pursuit of those who hacked Ashley Madison and buried beneath the millions of email accounts revealed in the aftermath lay the limits of personal piety. Christians braced themselves...
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Nouwen on Forgiveness
“Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. Sometimes we carry the memory in our bodies as a...
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When It Is (The) Orthodox to Be a Heretic – Forgiveness
We live by transactions. Buying goods or selling services, we live by transactions. It is the nature of a consumer economy. Too often the economic structures influence our understanding of the way the...
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Cultural Captivity – (Not) Seeing Our Own
Thinking through the implications of Peter Rollins‘ little book, The Orthodox Heretic, left me considering the ways we often miss our own “logs” when looking for others’ “specks.” There needs to be a...
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Stop Ripping Off My Scab
If anyone is going to pick at my scab, it will be me! Max, our middle grandson, loves to play outside. He is susceptible to mosquito bites and the normal cuts and scrapes like any young boy. On...
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Anger Can’t Live Alone: A Conversation with Scott Curry
Long before electronic billboards, the Internet, and mobile apps, the bumper sticker served as a means to communicate how a person saw the world. Eddie Chiles radio commentary sign-off triggered a...
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Counterfeit Forgiveness? A Conversation with Scott Curry
Who needs me? That may be a more helpful question today than, Who is my neighbor? Familiarity may breed contempt. It also may create indifference. Neighbor or Friend? The Good Samaritan became the...
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Living in Sin: A Conversation with Jason Micheli
“I forgive you.” We generally think those words follow, “I’m sorry.” The Good News of the Gospel is that God’s, “I forgive you,” comes first. That is how Jason Micheli describes Grace. God’s one-way...
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More Than A Banner
Jeremiah 31:27-34 Pastoral Prayer: Lord God, we read the Scriptures and often feel a sense of de ja vu, like we are in a replay of Jeremiah’s day. Things we felt confident in are being uprooted,...
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It’s Not Our Forgiveness to Give
Pastoral Prayer: Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may...
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