contemplative spirituality
Stamped & Sealed with a New Name
Last night I sat by my boys’ bedside and after tucking them in I said, “Let’s start something new and special called, “God Talk.” I told them I spend much […]
Stamped & Sealed with a New Name
Last night I sat by my boys’ bedside and after tucking them in I said, “Let’s start something new and special called, “God Talk.” I told them I spend much […]
Prayer of Thomas Merton
“Justify my soul, O God, but also from Your fountains fill my will with fire. Shine in my mind, although perhaps this means “be darkness to my experience,” but occupy […]
Let’s Be Humble & Curious Learners
One of my favorites…
Weekly Dig: “Childhood Wounds”
LECTIONARY REFLECTION | 11TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Luke 13:10-17; Psalm 71:1-6 “Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with […]
Welcome the Foreigner: Fiery Words from the Prince of Peace
‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels . . . I was a foreigner and you did not invite me […]
Weekly Dig: “Treasures New & Old”
‘Treasures New and Old’ by Jeremy Berg LECTIONARY FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2019 ISAIAH 5:1-7; PS. 80:1-2, 8-19; HEB 11:37-12:1 “They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in […]
Letters to a Godson
When I began a doctoral degree in New Testament context a couple years ago, I never would have guessed my thesis topic would end up focusing on the role of […]
Weekly Dig: “Jesus-Shaped Prayer” (M. Fox)
by Mike Fox LECTIONARY FOR SUNDAY, JULY 28 | LUKE 11:1-13 NEWS FLASH! JESUS WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN! Most people, Christians and non-Christians alike, recognize that Jesus Christ is the center […]
Racialized Religion
This past year of doctoral studies for me has been focused on two related topics — 1) Slavery in the Ancient World and 2) Race & Ethnicity in the Ancient […]
