Faith is not a formula.
And I wouldn’t even use the word ‘relationship’ – and probably not the metaphor of ‘a journey’.
The older I get, the more it seems that faith is a process – a determined focus on listening to the eternal, sifting out the noise and distractions and becoming closer with each breath and each word, to the fullness – and emptiness – of the pulse, hand and purpose of our Creator, which, ultimately brings us where we belong.
I’m a teacher and writer, which really means that I am a listener and I share what I see and hear.
Contributions
- April 3, 2024: What would (those who crucified) Jesus do?
- March 26, 2024: If Heaven is anything…
- January 5, 2023: Becoming a New Person
- December 2, 2021: Protecting What We Have
- November 10, 2021: The Mark of Cain: On Who Deserves to Live
- October 27, 2021: Transcending Boundaries as People of Faith
- September 20, 2021: Why Do You Say You Love Jesus?
- July 26, 2021: The Calling of Transformation
- June 21, 2021: Propositional Church in a Wounded World
- April 23, 2021: Black Deaths Matter
- April 6, 2021: Easter Won’t be Cancelled
- November 16, 2020: Giving (Not Taking) is the Mark of the Believer
- October 13, 2020: The Fairy Tale of Caring
- July 13, 2020: But what does a Christian look like?
- June 16, 2020: There Is No ‘Other’
- June 2, 2020: The Return of the One Percent
- April 16, 2020: Is This How It All Ends?: Challenging Our Shared Fatalism
- August 13, 2019: Thy Will Be Done
- May 11, 2019: Please Care
- March 20, 2019: A Hole in Our Souls
- March 5, 2019: What Is Holy?
- February 22, 2019: Do Black People Have Souls?
- December 8, 2018: The Opposite of Christianity
- October 8, 2018: Just Keep Walking
- October 8, 2018: Just Keep Walking
- July 30, 2018: What Would A Pharisee Do?
- September 20, 2017: The Gospel of Donald Trump
- September 19, 2016: Modern Blasphemy
- July 8, 2016: The Women in Jesus’ Life
- June 15, 2016: Caught in Adultery
- May 25, 2016: Lord, Save Us From Your Followers
- October 12, 2011: In and Out of the Zoo
- October 22, 2011: Questions for God from Behind Bars
- October 30, 2011: He Has A Name
- November 4, 2011: Honky-Tonk Hymns in the God Pod
- November 6, 2011: Foreclosure Tourism
- November 17, 2011: The Walker: An Anonymous Blur on the Horizon
- December 8, 2011: All I want for Christmas is the Real Christmas story
- December 15, 2011: War on Christmas
- December 22, 2011: Chinese Christmas: Always Winter and Never Christmas
- January 4, 2012: The Healing Scent of Holiness
- January 11, 2012: The Kingdom Belongs to Such as These? (Luke 18:15-17)
- January 15, 2012: This Train: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
- January 24, 2012: Who is my Neighbor?
- February 3, 2012: A Little Bird Told Me
- February 10, 2012: The Buried Talent
- February 15, 2012: Is That Any Way to Treat a Bible?
- February 20, 2012: Sometimes I See
- March 3, 2012: I Know Your Works
- March 13, 2012: An English Teacher Looks At Rush Limbaugh
- March 29, 2012: Bullies R Us
- April 5, 2012: Jesus, the Ham of God
- April 15, 2012: The Gospel Shell Game
- April 30, 2012: Can we have a Rational Conversation about Guns?
- June 4, 2012: Greater Love?
- June 15, 2012: Screw Your Neighbor
- June 29, 2012: No Bullies – No Victims
- July 13, 2012: Mirror, mirror
- July 22, 2012: Oh Wow
- August 17, 2012: The Universe Across Town
- August 28, 2012: We Built This
- September 14, 2012: Good Weeds: The Gospel as a Good Contagion
- September 19, 2012: A Child Shall Lead Them
- October 6, 2014: Let My People Vote!
- October 17, 2012: What Belongs to Caesar?
- November 2, 2012: The Judgment of Sodom – When Disaster Strikes
- November 7, 2012: The Hand is Quicker than the Eye: In Magic and Politics
- November 8, 2012: How to Lose an Election
- November 15, 2012: If I Have Cheated Anyone
- November 21, 2012: Murder in Our Hearts
- December 18, 2012: The Grammar of Gun Control
- December 23, 2012: Incarnation – Can Anything Good Come from a Crisis Pregnancy?
- December 28, 2012: The Rage of Moloch – An Old Testament god thriving on our children
- January 2, 2013: Earn and Fully Live the 'Truth' this New Year
- January 17, 2013: Hollywood Films: The March of the Beast
- January 19, 2013: And God said, ‘Let there be Guns’
- January 29, 2013: Cain’s Warning: Sandy Hook, Guns and Being Pro-Life
- February 12, 2013: When Christ Returns…Will He Find Faith?
- February 20, 2013: The Cross and the Calling
- February 27, 2013: Writing in the Dirt: The Choice Between Being Right and Being Like Jesus
- March 16, 2013: You can’t fall off the floor – and other profound and perhaps obvious life lessons
- March 19, 2013: Your Privilege is Showing
- March 23, 2013: Another Gospel: Salvation is Not the Purpose of Faith
- April 2, 2013: Are there Any Solid Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage?
- April 11, 2013: Funeral Grace
- May 8, 2013: The Temple: What Will Be Our Standing Legacy?
- May 10, 2013: “I am a sexual predator. I need help.” Ariel Castro
- May 19, 2013: Love is the Root of All Evil
- June 4, 2013: There Should Be No Poor Among You
- June 8, 2013: If we say we have no sin…who are we really calling a liar?
- June 13, 2013: Showdown on a South China ferry – Do we have faith because we were born into it?
- June 18, 2013: We Are the Words…
- June 22, 2013: New Testament Anti-smackdown
- July 4, 2013: Oh, For A Thousand tongues to sing
- July 8, 2013: Traditional Ignorance
- July 18, 2013: No Passengers & No Excuses
- July 25, 2013: Hungry Gypsies and Ragged Prophets
- July 31, 2013: It’s NOT the economy, stupid
- August 11, 2013: If God had my body
- August 28, 2013: Have you been 'born again'?
- September 1, 2013: On Hating President Obama
- September 12, 2013: The Cross and the Crucifix
- September 19, 2013: Random acts of glory – and senseless acts of Grace
- October 3, 2013: Abraham's (Many) Women
- October 27, 2013: The Toddler Logic of Cain
- November 23, 2013: Christianity, Empire, and a USS Mother Teresa?
- December 11, 2013: Mandela Is Dead
- January 7, 2014: Priming the Pump: Why do we eliminate those unlike us?
- January 26, 2014: War is the Ultimate Guy-Fun
- February 2, 2014: Why I am Not a Football Fan
- February 26, 2014: What Question Would You Ask God?
- March 23, 2014: Living in One World at a Time
- April 28, 2014: You Can’t Make Me
- May 1, 2014: Separation of Church and State
- May 20, 2014: Christian Questions
- June 12, 2014: Your Dead Kids
- June 28, 2014: What part of ‘Thou shall not kill’ do you not get?
- July 23, 2014: The Gospel, and Immigration Crisis, According to the Grinch
- October 6, 2014: Let My People Vote!
- December 2, 2014: A child is never just a child
- January 7, 2015: Touching Eternity
- June 2, 2015: All You Need is (Real) Love
- August 10, 2015: If I Were A Pastor
- September 21, 2015: All Lives (Don’t) Matter
- December 16, 2015: Don’t Call It Christianity
- March 24, 2016: What Would Be Your First Commandment?