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The Stewardship of Anger

The anger is palpable, isn’t it? The presidential primary campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have, in different  ways, focused and channeled a lot of the anger people feel.Trump and Sanders diverge radically from each other in their fundamental...

Tomorrow Today

In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, a freed slave, Paul D. tells, Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape her haunting memories: “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.” Easter is the tomorrow we yearn for, the...

Surrender

Bruce Springsteen sang the truth I experienced this past Thursday evening at All Souls Cathedral: “In the end, what you don’t surrender, well, the world just strips away.”After we shared the Maundy Thursday Eucharist, the church gradually descended into thicker...

Conversations about Calling

One of many gifts I receive from my students at Mars Hill University is our ongoing conversations about vocation and calling.  As they get closer to graduating, they inevitably ask questions like:“What’s next?”“Grad school?  What discipline and where?”“A...

I Can’t Make Him Beautful Enough

Words are both fragile and sturdy vessels.  Like rafts on storm-tossed water, they sometimes break beneath us and leave us stranded at a far distance from the mystery and meaning we sought to reach. Not always, though; they also may take us beyond the horizon of...