Love’s Percussive Proclamation I saw the Lord spitting on the altar, spray can in hand, scrawling verse after verse of invective poetry at a people, a nation, of ill-begotten gains...
Before whiteness, there was breath A reflection on John 20:19-23 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie When he had said this, Jesus breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.
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.
The Breath of God in the Face of COVID-19 In the face of a pandemic of breath-taking proportions, the breath of God conspires with all of creation for new life.