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Turtle Island Hermeneutics in Japan
During our recent family trip to Japan, I started reading this as book, Reading the Bible on Turtle Island, mainly from just personal interest. The book describes ways that Indigenous communities on Turtle Island (North America) read and interpret the Bible in the context of their cultural traditions and practices: honoring their ancestors who came…
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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…
