May 2012
Memorial Day
Remember the dead. But remember them in life. It is easy to sum up a man's life by his method of death, but each soldier who died had a life in the service and prior to the service. And it is the absence of those lives that tears at the fabric of our own lives […]
Missions
[written while on mission, edited afterward. This was originally the second of two postings] Thursday night, on the eve of our departure from our mission site. I am feeling even more ersatz Baptist than usual, as our Cooperative Baptist Fellowship mission group now consists of two ELCA Lutherans and a UCC minister playing a Baptist […]
Tribal identities
I have been continuing to reflect on the sermon I delivered for Thomas Sunday. That message, that the disciples of Jesus could not draw their status from their proximity to Jesus, has been resonating with me in the political season. It's hard not to draw our identity from our proximity to people we perceive as […]
Of History and Religion
Last week at our Cooperative Student Fellowship Student-led Bible study, we had some guests from another, charismatic-leaning campus ministry. They invited us to attend their Thursday-night event, the showing of a 30-minute film showing that the Bible is totally historically true. Husband of an historian that I am, I immediately asked, "well, it makes an […]