On our Way … to New Beginnings For most of us, Wine Before Breakfast was a coming home. But this was always “a sort of homecoming,” a homecoming on the way, never a settled and comfortable spirituality.
Pacing the Cage and Good Endings Rather than denying the darkness, or averting our gaze from the dark, we have embraced sorrow through lament, while we adjust our vision to see in the dark.
WBB On-line Worship: Easter Tuesday, No Cheap Hope How do we embrace the revolution of Easter without domesticating it into platitudes and cheap hope?
WBB Holy Week – Holy Saturday We are in a Holy Saturday moment, and there is no “going back to normal”.
WBB Holy Week – Good Friday God-awful week in a God-damned month of captivity, death toll on the rise, anxiety at an all time high.
Wednesday of Holy Week – The Dispute at the Table Maybe it is a good thing that we are on a Eucharistic fast.
Tuesday of Holy Week – Jesus sets the table This is not the language of victory, this is language of death.
Monday of Holy Week – Jesus Weeps Tears are God’s default. Judgement is never found outside of the embrace of grief in the heart of God.
WBB Holy Week: Palm Sunday Before this week is out, a stone will engage in a radical act of civil disobedience.
Holy Week and Bitter Tears: A Pastoral Letter Hope is going to be a discipline this year. We’re going to have to work a little harder to wrestle hope out of the jaws of despondency and despair.
WBB On-line Worship: Foreboding and Hope Foreboding is anticipatory grief. It is real. It mustn’t be numbed out.