Out in my front yard, my garden is stirring after an erratic but wintery winter. In the two eight by eight beds that flank my driveway, the ...

Late last week, I woke early and puttered into southeast DC on my scooter.  I was headed to a formerly industrial area near the DC Navy Yard...

As a part-time pastor, I'm the member of the family with daytime flexibility.  That means laundry and kid-shuttling and gardening and ...

Last week, at the height of Holy Week, I officiated over the funeral of a member of my former church.   He was 92, and even though often a...

Nothing gives more opportunities for being graceful than being an idiot.  I get more of those opportunities than I'd like. This last...

In an interesting piece of   bloggery, Carol Howard-Merritt finds herself wrassling with the concept of "fearing God."  It is,...

Over the last two weeks, in the midst of absorbing about 50 hours of nonstop doctoral coursework in seminary, I popped into the bookstore...

In my neck of the woods, there's a bit of disagreement about seasonal displays going on.  Deep in the Virginia exurbs, the mighty metr...

Yesterday, in the mid afternoon of my day off, I was sitting relaxing at my kitchen table. I was feeling a bit tired, and while a book was ...

Every once in a while, that petty little beast wakes up in me, colors my eye with bitter jaundice and looks around with gritted-teeth irrita...

Most folks who spend a great deal of time with the Bible come to have preferred books within it, a writer or prophet or poet whose expressio...

One of the things the emergent church gets pinged on a great deal is our relentless focus on conversation. We chat. We gather. We discuss...

It was the final day of our stay in Bermuda, and I was taking a little bit of time to pray. Praying from a balcony on the twelfth deck of a ...

Although things seem to be turning around a tick, I find myself wondering if I am responsible for the recent economic downturn. Not me pers...

As the economy has tanked, more and more calls have come to my church for emergency assistance. We're a small church that exists only be...

Westboro Baptist is unquestionably insane, but as I've spent a chunk of time going over their web presence in anticipation of their arri...

So what’s Paul doing rhetorically in Romans 1? In terms of ethos, logos, and pathos, Paul starts, appropriately, with ethos . Remember, ...

One of the biggest sticking points I have with the core evangelical savedness script is the peculiar insistence that Hell is full of people ...