Jun 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dismantling Racism training seeks to increase “racial understanding, healing and reconciliation.” It is offered several times throughout the year and is required for all parish clergy and all lay leaders, including vestry members. Trainings are...
Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Back, before we made Jesus into an english speaking, middle-class, pro death penalty, immigrant hating, bless-er of the status quo. He was a scandal. Still is. He was a wandering, dissident intellectual. A disrupter of dinner parties with tales of God’s...
Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Matthew 25:35 – 40 (NIV)35 For I was an hungry, and you gave me something to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink: I was a stranger, and you invited me in:36 I needed clothes and you clothed me: I was sick, and you looked after me:I was in...
Jun 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
People want straight talk, we hear. Often that means space to say ungracious things about others. I like Paul’s straight talk. He starts with himself. How he did everything he could to destroy the Jesus movement. How he stood idly by while a man was killed by a...
Jun 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
There are two opportunities this summer for those interested in discerning their call to the ministry of EfM mentor and for existing EfM mentors to renew their accreditation. The site is the Lanier House on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. The...
May 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Leadership is important, but so is following. Maybe more important. We struggle with the idea of following either because of arrogance or lack of faith. Jesus marveled at a soldier he met that had overcome both. He marveled at how profoundly the soldier connected...
May 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
We hear or read “Breaking News” regularly. Usually those words are followed by details of tragedy, scandal or the inelegant words of a public figure. Here’s some real breaking news: “While we were without strength, in due time Christ died...
May 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
James Baldwin wrote “The Fire Next Time,” a book based on a Bible verse and a song. “God gave Noah the rainbow for a sign, “No more water, the fire next time.” The book and the song imagine a cleansing fire that finally rights wrongs and...
May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
What did Jesus pray for? He prayed we would be complete. Complete, like not knowing where God ends and we begin. Complete like, “abide in me and I in you.” Complete, like our sins are an opportunity for God’s celebrity. Complete like, God-reliance...
Mar 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” -Matthew 20:28 (NIV)This Lenten journey has brought us to Good Friday, a day marked by nails and thorns and betrayal. It’s a day of solemn reflection, one...
