En-Joying
The writer of the Song of Songs encourages us, “the time of singing has come!” How do we live as people who know that the time of singing has come? Not, as the author of our Confession this morning says, “as toxic positivity or neglect [for] the pain of the world” but rather rooted in hope because we know the power of the time of singing to transform even the deepest pain.
August 25, 2024
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20 A couple months after I moved to Uptown, I found two round cracks in my car’s passenger side windows where I parked it on the street. My insurance company sent a nice man to replace my window. When I asked him how he thought the holes got...
August 11, 2024
Wherever God leads you this summer, whether you go there to escape trouble, or you’re drawn away for spiritual rest, or need new direction, don’t be afraid to go.
Sabbath Practice
I think Calvinists and capitalism have deeply damaged Sabbath for me. But as I struggle with my own exhaustion and work-a-holism, I have looked to our Jewish kindred for wisdom on the subject. And there is no one better than the rabbi of blessed memory, Abraham Joshua Heschel.