Category: Community
To be, or not to be… an atheist
Labels are cumbersome. To self-identify as an atheist, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or a Muslim, and so on, requires that you accept ownership of all that is attached to that label. It is wholly irrelevant w... Read More
Let’s Become a New Creation Together
With every fiber of my being I believe what the Great American Poet, Walt Whitman said in his Song of Myself: “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” and what the cosmologist Brian S... Read More
Why I am ashamed to be a United Methodist.
First let me make something perfectly clear — I love my denomination. The United Methodist Church‘s theology is historically grounded in a movement attentive to the holistic character of h... Read More
Vocation at the Heart of Formation
What a rich blessing it was to help host the Fund for Theological Education’s Leaders in Ministry Conference at Boston University, June 16-20, 2010. Having been an FTE Undergraduate and Ministry F... Read More
Resistance Is Not Futile
I’m emboldened to resist These pleas to desist To a mindless assimilation Sans critical examination Of mythic cyborg-like notions Laced with spiritual potions A “We” with no “I” denti... Read More
Christians in the Sukkah
Have you ever heard the expression, “You’re in my personal space?” As Americans, we love our space. During the frontier days, barb wire delineated my space from your space. Today, elongated “p... Read More
Holy Wisdom Monastery: The Movie
A short documentary-style introduction to the Volunteer-in-Community (VIC) program at the ecumenical Holy Wisdom Monastery near Madison, Wisconsin. It conveys the openness of Holy Wisdom Monastery, th... Read More