Lent Reflections – Fat Tuesday
From dust you came. They will dance in the streets today, celebrating all things human, raising glasses and shirts for beads and plastic trinkets. They will sway to street jazz, the quintets reminding...
View ArticleLent Reflections – Ash Wednesday
“How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Who’s sin is covered!” —Psalm 32:1 Today is a day of ashes, a day to remember that we were dust and to dust we shall return. In that, we reflect...
View ArticleA Message to Bob Dylan
The story in Deuteronomy 9 has always intrigued me. While Moses is on the Mountain receiving the commandments, the Israelites create a golden calf to worship. God tells Moses that the Israelites are...
View ArticleBrevity, Weightlessness, and my Lenten Reading
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air. Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not...
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On Nature Groaning – Lenten Reflections
Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy Before the Lord, for He is coming For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in...
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There And Back Again: Music And Silence
This post is part of The High Calling’s community building project, there and Back Again (see below), and was inspired in part by Ann Kroeker’s post, Slow-Down Fast: Music and Silence....
View ArticleWhat Obscenity and Grace Have in Common
“So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace. What then? Israel failed to obtain...
View ArticleEaster Reflections–A Letter to Dave
Yesterday we celebrated the rolling away of the stone. We sang songs about the empty tomb, how the enemy was defeated. Rob sawed on a fiddle and we danced jigs—“All Hail the Power of Jesus Name!” I...
View ArticleBeginnings: Ash Wednesday
“One cannot begin to face the real difficulties of the life of prayer and meditation unless one is first perfectly content to be a beginner and really experience himself as one who know little or...
View ArticleLenten Reflections–Silence
Silence is a difficult practice. Stillness brings a gathering storm of ideas and ideas and ideas, the constant firing of synaptic lightening. The truth is, I am not well practiced in the art of...
View ArticleHoly Week Reflection No. 1
“The true light which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. ” ~John 1:9-10 It is Holy Week, the week...
View ArticleParade of Questions
It was a daddy-date, just the two of us. Ian and I sat at U.S. Pizza Company, the home of the non-artisanal, non-organic, thin and crispy crust pizza. This is not your upper-crust fare; instead, it is...
View ArticleThere is no Easter Friday
There are some churches, I have heard, who have opted for Friday and Saturday Easter services. This, I suspect, is to make space for this weekend’s capacity crowds, or to facilitate more convenient...
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