The Coolest Thing Since the Printing Press
I’m surprised that this didn’t make more of a splash when it came out a month or so ago. The Codex Sinaiticus project is updating and making available online the images and translations of a codex—a...
View ArticleThat Old Time Religion Ain’t Conservative Enough
So my friends lists on Facebook, and on my blogroll, and even on my television (good Lord, do I love Rachel Maddow) are all talking about the same thing this week. The Conservative Bible Project. Like...
View ArticleThe Invention of Faith?
My husband and I recently watched the movie “The Invention of Lying,” written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson (at Internet Movie Database). I’m surprised that I hadn’t heard more...
View ArticleThat’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion.
I’ve been pointed to a fantastic discussion on Newsweek’s website about disbelieving clergy, and a corresponding study from Tufts University about clergy who have “lost faith in their tradition.”...
View ArticleSpirituality that speaks to the rest of us
I have bad days. Bad weeks, even. Last week was one such example. I was feeling like “church” was an old, dead concept (I still think this, at least in the way most of us think about church), and that...
View ArticleSermon: Be. Loved. Beloved.
“Be. Loved. Beloved.” (January 13, 2013) Each one of us is unique, marked and known in our imperfections, scuffs, and rough places. And yet we are known and loved intimately by God, claimed and called...
View ArticleSermon: Bad Reception
“Bad Reception” (Feb 3, 2013) God’s promise to the prophets– to be with them so they do not need to be afraid– seems on the surface to be an empty one, as prophet after prophet is harassed, degraded,...
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