robot with a heart
  • hope?

    hope?

    January 25, 2026
    in despair, hope, ice, reflections, violence

    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…

  • a theology of i don’t know

    a theology of i don’t know

    December 1, 2025
    in love, maturity, spirituality

    “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…

  • reflections on year two: am i okay now?

    reflections on year two: am i okay now?

    November 22, 2025
    in church, gratitude, grief, ministry, reflections

    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…

  • 2 / scripture and authority

    2 / scripture and authority

    October 11, 2025
    in authority, bible, interpretation, meaning, scripture

    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…

  • A Collection of Quotes from Against the Wind

    A Collection of Quotes from Against the Wind

    June 24, 2025
    in justice, liberation, politics, quotes, reflections, theology

    Some quotes I collected from my reading of Dorothee Soelle’s memoir, Against the Wind: A Memoir of a Radical Christian (ISBN: 0-8006-3079-3) where she writes about the events and relationships that shaped her life. Each of these quotes could get a post on their own; maybe I’ll just do a few select ones. Anyway, with…

  • Bending the rules

    Bending the rules

    May 29, 2025
    in faith, paul, public, timothy

    The passage for the sermon this past Sunday came from several scenes in Acts 16. As I was reading along, my thoughts began to wander about a detail that wasn’t addressed in the sermon, but stirred many thoughts in me as I considered how faith connects with cultures. In the first few verses of Acts…

Next Page→

robotwithaheart