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Sacred Questions
>Questions become sacred when they don’t have a simple answer or maybe no answer at all. Or, they become sacred when the answer is like a river. The answer may have a name, but the makeup of the...
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Jesus is the Question
Peter Block suggests that community transformation and restoration is more likely to take place when the community is confronted with sacred questions (aporia). I agree with him. Block writes,...
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Is the Great ? Guiding You
I believe the Spirit guides, but for me, it always seems as though the Spirit is guiding with more questions than answers. I want him to be a GPS, but apparently he’s a teacher in the tradition of...
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Remembering Holy Saturday: The Day We Embrace Doubt and Silence
Doubt and silence play a major role in the history of the Church; a role, that for the most part, has been written out of the Protestant and evangelical story. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the...
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One Size Fits All?
A scraped knee … It’s all going to be okay. You’re made fun of at school … It’s all going to be okay. A high schooler’s cut from the team … It’s all going to be okay. Your girlfriend/boyfriend dumps...
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The Why That God Doesn’t Answer
This blog has afforded me a number of privileges, the greatest of which has been the connections I’ve made with those in the blogging community who are grieving. Grieving hard. Young woman who have...
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Ash Wednesday: The Day We Doubt Our Immortality
Ash Wednesday isn’t suppose to be comfortable. It’s a day when the church takes repentance public. A day when something we usually reserve for the private sphere get’s pushed into the public sphere....
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“This Funeral Isn’t About You”
That’s what I wanted to say. If you know me, you know that I tend to be blunt. Awkwardly so. Being that blunt objects aren’t allowed at funerals, I’ve had to learn the art of professional speak....
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