On Being with Nadia Bolz-Weber – Sep. 17, 2020
“I say to people at our “welcome to house” brunches: I’m glad you love it here, but at some point, I will disappoint you, or the church will let you down. Please decide on this side of that happening if you will still stick around. Because if you leave, you will miss the way that […]
On Being with Serene Jones – Sep. 14, 2020
“I was having a hard time forgiving the man I had been married to. I realized that the hatred and the trauma and all of these things that we carry with us, we’re not afraid to let go of them because they’re so painful; we’re actually afraid to let go of them because they’ve become […]
The Accounting of Forgiveness
“How many times do I need to forgive my brother or sister?” That’s the question which prompts the parable of the unmerciful servant.* Peter, like me, would like a limit on forgiveness, perhaps somewhere around the number of items you can take through the grocery store express line. Well, Jesus does throw out numbers in […]
The Miracle of Semi-OK – Aug. 27, 2020
“At regular intervals, life gets a little too real for my taste. The wider world seems full of bombers, polluters, threats of all kinds. My own small world suffers ruptures—a couple of deaths, a couple of breakups, a young adult who had me scared out of my wits for a couple of years—that leave me […]
