A Watered- down Gospel

Something is missing. The communion elements taste different when the American church is divided. Truth be told, it’s only been united during chattel slavery and even that was for a short time. Once the water of baptism was dried off and persons gave the implications of this new birth more thought, there was once again […]

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If you have ears to hear, justice is calling

Did you hear that? Do you feel that? Something is shifting. The American empire and its capitalist machinery that pushes its citizens to work themselves to death, to keep the wheels turning. It’s coming undone and to a screeching halt for some. “The Great Resignation,” wherein persons up and quit their jobs without a safety […]

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Baptism is the way to the undivided “kin-dom” that is coming

My heart is with my siblings in Ukraine. Russia is attacking their home, starting a war during a global pandemic. I pray for their peace and protection. I mourn for the lives lost to the vanities of war and power’s greed. I pray that we will be able to see ourselves without either. Masks on, […]

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A call for peace

Let there be peace. This is my solemn prayer.  That we need not die or assassinate each other’s character to experience it.  I don’t just want to rest in peace but to live in peace. But, it is hard to find peace and quiet these days. It is an unlikely combination.  Albert Einstein said, “Peace […]

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Follow Me

“We begin our Lenten journey addressed by the remarkable assurance that the God who summons us in is the God who goes along with us.” | Walter Brueggeman, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent Where is Jesus going?  To the cross.  We know the way that he must take.  We are so […]

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