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grounded
Every year I think about this day. It’s gonna be a tradition now to visit my friends, Carl and Macho, giving ashes under the 46th street subway. But it’s also a statement. I’m aware that as I go up to the train, take the 7 into the city and transfer to another train on the…
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apolitical is political
I started this post last month; after Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were killed by ICE in Minneapolis, but I never finished it. I’m gonna publish it in its unfinished state just so I don’t lose my thoughts from the time. I guess I feel the need to write more when things are tough.…
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hope?
I must confess I’m having a hard time hoping. I’m not sure where the world is turning. Sure, if you ask me the content of my hope and faith, I can tell you. I can tell you what I know in my head — in my understanding of the faith: the cross, the resurrection, the…
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a theology of i don’t know
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only…
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reflections on year two: am i okay now?
I’ve delayed posting my annual reflection on My Story at King’s Cross Church — longer than I needed anyway. Last year, I made a series of posts, the final which I wrote in late-December out of necessity; it just took me that long to work through my thoughts and feelings. Last year when I reread…
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2 / scripture and authority
I hope the latter chapters of this work will move faster than this one. I took a very long time with many starts and stops (much longer stops than starts) trying to put my thoughts together on the scriptures. I grew up in a church tradition that highly valued scriptural fluency and my cultural values…
