“Your God’s not big enough!” Preachers always like to say junk like that.  Certainly it’s true, but I never hear anyone say, “Your God’s not small enough!” And I suspect that our God really is too big, especially for Christmas.  The huge God who is older than time, who is before the creation of matter, who makes billions [...]

As long as there has been a Christian Church that has sought to be a dignified and well respected institution in society, there has also been “holy fools”.  St. John the Baptizer, who ate bugs, slept under the stars and gave his head in order to call the insecure King Herod to account.  St. Brigid, [...]

(*note: I realize this is a ridiculously basic Lutheran understanding… but it’s news to me.)
I distinctly remember the moment I realized that becoming the mission pastor of Church of the Beloved also meant that I was going to need to preach on a regular basis.  My heart sank, because, for some reason, preaching had not [...]