Sustainable Traditions 2010 Christmas Greeting
To the humble a door opens. We stoop to enter in, we leave our selves at the threshold, we clothe ourselves in Him. In weakness He overturns the strong, in foolishness He shames the wise. Be born anew in the barnyard of our lives…
Reframing the Liturgical Year
We do better to simply cry out for God’s coming than to make peace with God’s absence by fixating on our celebrations, with all their traditions and trappings…It has always been meant to be something we simply look through, are helped along by, not something we look at, something we assign divine agency to, or hope in…
No Ordinary Child
This Christmas I am deeply considering how our story- and more specifically the story of my newborn son- is intertwined with GOD’s story- the GOD who was incarnated in the frail frame of a baby- much like my son…
Birth of the Rebel Jesus
Let us listen to those who challenge our collective imagination, like Jackson Browne who sings of the ‘Rebel Jesus’ and reminds us that if we are to believe in and celebrate GOD’s incarnation we must also live in-step with the ‘upside-down’ kingdom of the King who became a servant to us all…
The Holy Fools of Christmas (feat. Mr. Bean, Rev Billy & Linus)
I decided instead to enjoy things a bit and have laugh- to let a few ‘holy fools’ encourage us to cast off all that hinders us from loving each other and remembering that Christmas is all about remembering the incarnation-and ‘re-incarnating’ Jesus to those around us…(Featuring Mr. Bean, Rev Billy and Linus)
Pure Scum (Book Review)
Mike Sares and his church, Scum of the Earth, offer us a message of hope that maybe we don’t have to live in a spiritually toxic churchianity- maybe there is something true and real to following Jesus beyond the shiny plastic shellac of our Sunday smiles and proper prayers…
To Redeem Christmas We Must Redeem Advent
If we want to redeem Christmas, we must redeem Advent. And it cannot be one or two of us, it must be a community that together decides that waiting, repenting, expecting, mourning, and longing for more is better than all the promises of Black Friday and Christmas morning…
Cooking Up A Story: Monastery Mustard [video]
My latest favorite Cooking Up A Story video features the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel, Oregon. They adhere to a monastic form of Christian community, balancing their days between prayer, community life, ministry to others and the fine art of making…Monastery Mustard!
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 2)
“The Mad Farmer Revolution” poeticizes what a “revolution” of farming would be, which is Berry’s way to rewrite the wrongs of industrial agriculture. As the bonds of the local community unraveled with the industrialization of agriculture farm towns across America simply boarded up and became ghost towns…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 1)
The Mad Farmer serves as Wendell Berry’s poetic response to the changing cultural and agricultural times he conveys in his expose of modern agriculture, The Unsettling of America…
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