Easter Light

Easter Light

The earth was dark twice. Once at the original creation before God first created light. But later there was an even deeper darkness, on Good Friday, between the sixth and ninth hour, when we were crucifying God, and as Jesus dying on the cross cried out “My God, my...
Dogwood Blooms and the Tears of Jesus

Dogwood Blooms and the Tears of Jesus

I was hiking solo, plodding along the trail and occasionally, carefully, picking my way through the gnarly roots poised at a moment’s notice to grab a toe or entrap a heel and take me to the ground. It was quiet. No chatter with hiking friends nor playlist pulsing...
Lenten Lectionary | What Really Happened?

Lenten Lectionary | What Really Happened?

The Christmas narratives in the Bible are unique, but not conflicted like the resurrection narratives. Yes, we typically conflate the timeline by placing the Matthean magi who arrived from somewhere in the distant darkness bearing gifts alongside the Lukan shepherds...
What if Crucifixion Is Not Salvific?

What if Crucifixion Is Not Salvific?

What do you do when the hymns we sing reinforce a theology which is, and continues to be, detrimental to the marginalized, those who liberationist theologian Jon Sobrino called “the Crucified People”? “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in the...