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It is a joyful thing to be called to work with Christ in the world, but...If we are not at least a little anxious about what the good news of the Risen Lord being alive in the world means for our lives, perhaps we misunderstand the magnitude of what we are being called to do...And yet, the Good News is that as we find ourselves in these situations, we will find Christ there with us. It will be on our journey of intertwined fear and great joy that Christ will come to us over a

Infinitely unknowable because we simply lack the capacity to experience and hold all truth. Infinitely knowable because we will never be finished learning more.

So often we get wrapped up in labels and descriptors and characteristics that feel like identities. How could anything good come from where we’ve come from? How could anything good come from who we’ve been told we are by folks around us who seem all too eager to take us down a peg? But these labels and identifiers are not who we are. They are not where we are from, not ultimately. We are the Children of God, made in the image of God, beloved by God, who God has called “very g

There once was a king who was adored and feared by the people of his own great nation as well as others across the known world. He understood that displays of power fueled these sorts of feelings in most spheres of influence at the time. So he sought to display power at every opportunity.

Physical violence and oppressive social systems are the antithesis of Christian teaching, faith, and a Christ-like life.

The American Christian most often does not want earth to be like heaven, despite our prayers and creeds which say “Thy will be done on earth as in heaven”. Instead we seem keen to find the hell of this life and this world, so that our heavenly reward might seem all the sweeter. Yet our God did not create hell. We did and do. Where we might share worldly wealth, we opt for systems of “merit” and birthright as defined by those who have a worldly claim to such, while denying the