Restore (Lent #39)

It’s cliché, but true. It’s easier to tear down than to build up. Much easier to destroy than restore. It true of buildings and places , and it’s true of people and relationships. Perhaps that’s why there is so much destruction in this world. It’s the easier thing to do. Repair. Rebuild. Create. These represent the harder […]

Alone (Lent #38)

I pull into the parking lot today and am surprised to find my name tag getting snowed on. I must have dropped it as I left yesterday and there it sat, all night, in the cold (and now the snow), alone. The title I have scrawled on this name tag is “Super Hero”. A bit […]

Home (Lent #37)

Talk of church often focuses on a physical place, a time or activity. This is church as a destination or as something we do. But, the most compelling understanding of church for me is church as a people. Not something we do, but something we are. (Isn’t this the position of Rethink Church whose crazy […]