We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.
Gestate in the womb of the Christ; be born again into the world God so loves; let Jesus raise you into the human being God imagines you to be. Can you see it? Nicodemus couldn't, under the cover of darkness, and that's a shame. People around the world are waiting for us to be born anew.
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A joyous wedding with guests who party hard... a public tantrum that can get a guy arrested. All in a day's work for our guy Jesus.
El Greco paints the Jesus who wasn't concerned with being liked.
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"The Other Nathan" is a friend of ours from Galileo's very beginning, and he's had a good and important word for us at many important times in our life together. "How did Jesus find YOU?" he wants to know in this sermon. Hm. That's a darn good question.
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Rev. Dr. Irie Session has been important in our pastor's life for more years than either of them need to admit. The inaugural sermon in our new worship space, "Pass the Salt!", was exactly exactly exactly right. Thanks, sister-friend. We are grateful beyond measure.
The Revs. Drs. Irie and Katie ❤️❤️❤️
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"Can you just hold him for me, just for a little while? Take good care of him, please." Communion on Christmas Day and the inevitable truth about Jesus, ourselves, and the God who loves us both.
“In the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt, the God of parsecs and millennia is snuggled tightly to his mother’s breast and smuggled to safety, all so that the God of parsecs and millennia can whisper into the dreams of fleeing Syrians and Somalians and Central Americans, ‘Me, too.’”
The conception and birth of Jesus in the gospel according to Matthew requires God to work in ways outside the social and religious norms of Joseph, Mary, and their fellow Judeans. Inevitably, the Messiah is not wanted by the way the logic of God works in the world; but we, like Joseph, are called to be transformed by God’s logic and move beyond religious norms of righteousness and into mercy. Thanks, Grasshopper Jay!
Jesus's family tree includes #nastywomen Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba. Who is on yours? What difference does it make? (Trigger warning: nonconsensual sex.)
Colby Martin's book Unclobber deals with the biblical-theological necessity of LGBTQ+ inclusion, and tells the story of his conversion on that exact question. "Convertibility" is a Christian virtue, isn't it? We say yes.
Honoring suffering and speaking benediction -- the dual disciplines that tell both truths about lived human experience. 1. It is truly awful. 2. It will (probably) be okay.
"Honor the body that is you. Honor the body that God made. Honor the body that carried you here tonight, and will carry you home when the time is right."
On prayer, and the spiritual practice of getting lost. "Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place!" Sometimes that's all you need: the recognition that God is here, too. Look around. Say hello.
Katie, Haiti. January 1988.
1988, St. Louis du Nord, Haiti. Medical team and translators.
You are too tired to change the world. That's just the way Pharaoh likes it. Get some sleep! God likes God's people to be well-rested so we can repair the breach, restore the streets, ride on the heights of the earth!
Grasshopper Jenny muses on the “Quotidian Mysteries” — the idea that God can be found in the smallest, most ordinary tasks of daily life. As a mom, grandmom, and caregiver to her parents, she would know.
That's Jay, in the classy hat, on the right. Tarrant County Pride Parade 2016.
Jay the Intern, formerly known as Jay the Actuary, has some things to say about widows who press their claims... and who, in the end, sits down at Jesus’s table. Dang it, Jay!
We sent Ryan Felber on a year-long fellowship with XPLOR -- a program that helps young adult discover their gifts, and listen for God's calling. And then he came back to us, ready to serve our church in ministry. Thanks be to God!
