Imagine a World image credit: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land A sermon preached at St.
Remembering, Forgetting and the “F” Bomb Any alternative narrative, any liberating vision, has to engage in an imaginative act of forgetting … and remembering.
The Gospel in Dangerous Times A battle of stories, a conflict of myths. Everything hangs on the outcome. This is a matter of life and death. So which side are you on?
Jesus is an Asshole The other day I sat down with a profoundly faithful Christian friend who hates Jesus. Why? He's got this nasty habit of coming across as a complete asshole.
There’s More Healing to Be Done Jesus stops, disrupting the flow of blood from the one whose hemorrhages had not ceased to flow for 12 long years. Twelve years of suffering healed in an instant. And yet, there’s more healing to be done.
The Centurion’s Tale And if he was God’s son, the King of the Jews, then what was he doing on that cross? But it is on the cross that I saw who he was. It is on the cross that this king is enthroned. And that doesn’t make any sense at all. Or does it?
Stubborn When Jesus remixes Isaiah's song of the vineyard, what Bartimeaus sees is stubbornness meet stubbornness.
What do you want me to do for you? (A meditation on Mark 10.32-52 presented at Wine Before Breakfast on February 24, 2015) The Zebedee boys and Bartimaeus.
From Empire to Cross (The Wine Before Breakfast community is journeying to the cross this Lent with Mark as our guide on the way.
The First Word On the banks of the river, I had this sense that a new plotline was emerging. Jesus of Nazareth would be the first word in the story of what might be.
Ched Myers: 60 years old and still ahead of the game “But you just can’t do that!” That was the refrain from the same student over and over again.
Dance me to the End of Love by Brian Walsh On Sunday, October 14, the Wine Before Breakfast community came together with the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto for an evening of wine, bread and prayer with the music and poetry of Leonard Cohen.
Holy Week and Dismantling Atomic Bombs The pilgrims on the Jericho road always sang the same song as they made their way to Jerusalem on the first day of Passover Week.