Category: Congregation
Spills: A Collage for the News
When we receive news, we are being invited into a transaction of words, but we are not told what to do with them. We respond.... When words respond to words, we call it “education” and “dialogue... Read More
Where is God in Goodbye?
A while back I found out that my partner was a sex addict who had been leading a boozy secret life full of violence fetishes, endangerment of women, unprotected sex, compulsive pornographic email exch... Read More
Celebrating Female Clergy
A college chaplain once candidly described the process for him, as a Protestant, as one of simultaneous celebration and mourning when he recognized that Protestantism was no longer a universal norm on... Read More
Give Meaning to What is Positive, Not to What is Negative
I can say with complete honesty that I am not mean. In fact, I haven’t a mean bone in my body. So, why then, do I sometimes do mean things? Why do I sometimes surround myself with negative thoughts ... Read More
25 Leading Rabbis (and two students!) Speak Out Against Islamophobia
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, may have said it best: Ever since the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, hatred and discrimination against Muslim... Read More
You Probably Do Not Have Narcissistic Personality Disorder
I was an undergraduate when I started hearing my classmates speak in reverent tones about Buddhism. Suddenly everyone was reading Hesse’s Siddhartha and setting their watch timers for twenty minutes... Read More
An Upset in Piperville: An Object Lesson in Loving the Theologically Ridiculous
Over the past few days, one three-word tweet has put the evangelical world into a tizzy: Farewell Rob Bell. The tweet came from John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN and ... Read More
What Are We Saying?
For me, this raises important questions about the power and significance of words. The words of prayer are so important that I don’t want to change them, yet they are often so problematic for me tha... Read More