The following is a sermon I gave at The Mercy House church on November 20, 2011. Text: Genesis 43 & 44 Each of us is born into a given context. We are literally thrust out into a world and a life that is largely beyond our control. None of us decided the time or place… [Read more…]
November 10, 2011
A friend and I had a long conversation last night and one of the topics we got onto dealt with prayer. I think I may start trying to write some prayers again, as that has been the only meaningful prayer time I’ve had in recent memory. Here are a couple of prayers I wrote awhile… [Read more…]
October 26, 2011
I may start posting regular segments from Kierkegaard’s The Present Age. I’ve yet to find a book, essay, or article that is a more precise critique of Western society. First published in 1846, The Present Age was actually the second part of SK’s review of a novel, The Two Ages. True to form, SK’s work here… [Read more…]
October 22, 2011
I’d been working on a piece about the OWS movement/pseudo-revolution/what-have-you for the last week or so and haven’t made much progress. I recently read a piece by Heath Pearson over at The Kenosis. I began to write a comment but it took on a life of its own and became this post. It may… [Read more…]
October 15, 2011
The following is a sermon I gave at The Mercy House church back in late August. It’s rather long, though probably the clearest expression of my theology I’ve come up with thus far. Mark 8:31-38 31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of… [Read more…]
October 3, 2011
NOTE: If this piece starts to make you angry, please read the last paragraph before you jump to any conclusions. There was a time in college when I began to equate what was “right” with that which was considered the most “progressive.” I read feminists, only to find out that the feminists were being critiqued… [Read more…]
September 26, 2011
Over at Reclaiming the Mission, David Fitch began a conversation about the Church and its relation to the view of incarnation as an the ongoing presence of Jesus today via the Church, as opposed to a single event two-thousand some odd years ago when Jesus lived (the link is his last post in a series… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
A friend requested that I write something on capital punishment in light of the recent controversy surrounding the murder of Troy Davis. While I thought about writing a reasoned, well-researched defense of my staunch opposition to the death penalty, this is what came out: I had not heard much about Troy Davis until a couple… [Read more…]
November 20, 2011
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