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 […]

Beloved (Lent #36)

Be-loved. Be-love-ed. However you say it, “beloved” means dearly loved. (check out these ways the word has been used…The Gospel of John’s Beloved Disciple; Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Beloved Community) To love dearly, to be dearly loved. I had a moment this morning as I was hovering over a bowl of cereal, when my mind […]