Lent
Do you remember the first prayer you were taught? Church of England, Common in British and Australian religious schools. For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful/grateful. Amen. Hanging on my bedroom wall was this prayer: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul…
Death and other inconveniences Last week, I fell into one of the traps of Christianity. When striving to love the world that God loves (Marcus Borg), to live a compassionate life inspired by Jesus, it’s easy to make our faith into a to-do list, a never-ending, tiring, attempt to do-as-God-does. In a recent discussion, Douglas…
Why Christian Loving the world that God loves They say, don’t ask a question you don’t want to hear the answer to. So when the answers to the question, Why Christian, come back… It’s what we’ve always done…this is my family church…people seem bothered that there’s not a more reflective answer and I’m ok with…
Why Christian Speaking Christian… In the face of religious decline and mistrust, and our highly personalized (narcissistic) culture and the infighting and divides that happen even within Christianity, in spite of all of that, I still believe Christianity has much to offer the world. Over the last few weeks, I’ve tried to make my case,…
I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Many of the wrongs done in the name of religion, in the name of Christianity, can thank a particularly destructive interpretation of these words from the Gospel of Matthew. These are not easy words of Jesus, and they require us to look past the years…
As we journey through Lent this year, we are considering the question Why Christian? We may be able to identify why we’re here every week, and next week, we’ll deeply consider how we got here, but for others, outside of habit alone, we haven’t considered what it means to invest our time, our energy, our…