local congregations & parishes

Breath for Dry Bones

God starts the work of restoration not among the powerful and prominent, but among the nameless bones.

“Is it possible to build something bold rather than shrink what we have?”

“Is it possible to build something bold rather than shrink what we have?” The two institutions I love the most are: Church and Newspaper (Museums and Baseball are 3 & 4, respectively). I believe in their similar and quite different holy work to tell stories of Truth and Life, especially stories that are undervalued and …

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We Live Tight: A Sermon for Cities

God decides to give this ministry of reconciliation to a people who can’t reconcile over snow parking space savers?

We who live in cities have been entrusted with ministry of reconciliation, not in the abstract, but with our particular neighbors.