Christmas Ashes
It is a strange thing to look upon a box of ashes. Covered cardboard, soft to the touch yet firm in its structure. To know that inside those dark brown walls the total physical sum of a man’s body, who breathed and spoke words in that very room in the week before, lay gathered in […]
Faith and Failure
It is strange to me how connected success and Christian culture have become. In book after book, TV sermon after TV sermon, popular Christian culture seems to attach the idea of achieving fame, wealth and power to our Christian faith. Our faith seems to be more about winning and achieving. Jesus seems to have become […]
Newtown
What can you say in the wake of the horrors of Newtown, Connecticut? It is unthinkable, and breaks the heart to the core. So many ripped from this world all to soon: Charlotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeleine, Catherine, Chase, Jesse, James, Grace, Emilie, Jack, Noah, Caroline, Jessica, Avielle, Benjamin, Allison. We believe in […]
Thankful – even in the end of things…
It is often scary when we get to the end of things. There is something about the closing of chapters and of periods in our life that makes us lament their passing. Perhaps it is that we fear what is beyond. Perhaps it is that we become old friends with the joy and pain […]