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Burn
It’s better to marry than to burn, wrote Paul But what the hell was he on about? Desire smolders within me and I cannot put it out, nor contain it, nor stop it in its course. Fire refines, said the Psalmist, but at this point I’m more concerned with whether it will take the whole…
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But what is God like?
Often, when I am reading sacred text, I find myself wondering: what does God *actually* sound like? As in, if I had been *there* at *that moment* what would I have heard? This is especially true for me when it comes to the prophets, because they are so often tasked with unenviable task of mediating…
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When I look at the stars….
Earlier this summer, NASA released images from the James Webb Telescope (you can find them here). The pictures are awesome in the oldest sense of the word, in no small part because they reveal, as one colleague put it, that “the universe is vast, incredibly old, absolutely unknowable in its entirety.”It can be so easy…
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Appetite
What happens to us, on the journey to adulthood, to strip from us the gift of delighting in ourselves?
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Abandoning Yourself
I never thought of myself as what you might call a “tortured soul.” As a child, I lived a rather boring, ordinary life. My parents were (for the most part) very happy. The worst you could say about me, if you could say something, was that I was far too competitive (incidentally, things often came…
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Writing again
It’s been a minute. 11 months to be exact, but the truth is that I haven’t been writing as much here at all lately. Over the last few years, time that I might have spent writing was instead handed over to the “realities” of daily life (translation: responsibilities to other people in my life). Rarely,…
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Going Deeper with John’s Gospel: The Prologue
This year, my congregation is undertaking the project of seeking to understand more deeply the Gospel according to John. This is the first lecture in the series. I will also be posting complementary sermons during this season. John’s Gospel is an enigmatic text—it stands on its own, apart from the accounts of Matthew, Mark, and…
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