Seven years, little ones, seven years. What does seven years mean in the mystery that lies after death? Or even before it: in the far-flung eons of space and time, in a universe so vast and so old the human mind cannot comprehend it, what is a life? My thirty-one years are the fragment of …
Alone
My mental health has been rotten lately. The thing about depression and PMDD (and, I imagine, a lot of other mental health disorders) is that they tell you that you are alone, and then they make it happen. Imagine, if you will, that you have bombs going off in your brain. (Matt Haig in his …
Easter Lament
Oh Creator, Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Lord, whoever you are Are you the God of the lynchers or the lynched? The oppressors or the oppressed? The slavers or the enslaved? I sat in church and I heard about the sanctity of life and the firstborn of Egypt condemned to death and there were no tears for …
Jesus and John Wayne
When I started reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, I expected to find the book deeply interesting. What I did not expect was that I would devour the book in three days, that every reading would be undergirded by a …
Honest Anniversary
This is the year that almost did us in. I'm not supposed to say that out loud, am I? Anniversary posts on social media are supposed to be poetic and inspiring, spouses speaking of each other in glowing terms, any blemishes and flaws in the marriage carefully filtered out so that it is presented to …
A Christmas Blessing
May the light that shone over Bethlehem pierce through our darkness and show us the path of Love. May the anthem of peace thundered by the heavenly choirs guide us, not towards the passive expediencies of peace-keeping, but the active, difficult work of peace-making. May the joy of Simeon and Anna upon seeing the Promised …
The Wages of (telling kids they’re) Sin{ful}
Recently at dinner 5-year-old Sean said, “Today in chapel Ms. X took a bunch of scraps of paper and set fire to them in a bowl. And then when she showed us the bowl, there was nothing left! They were all gone!" I felt my forehead wrinkling. “Why did she do that? “To show us …
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The Social Dilemma
Sunday night I watched the new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It was the same kind of experience which I imagine someone who drinks 36 ounces of Diet Coke every day would have watching a documentary about aspartame. I think most of us know, at some level, that social media is addictive, that behind the …
PMDD Is A Bitch.
PMDD is a bitch. Two good weeks a month then those tell-tale cramps in the side another seed of life launched by a hopeful ovary but to me it signals the opposite and I start to look for the creep the slither the grey fog, red-rimmed like the pollution of a distant battle those firing …
The Bible and Me, Part 2
Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible is without error or fault in all its teaching, or, at least, that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.Biblical infallibility is the belief that what the Bible says regarding matters of faith and Christian practice is wholly useful and true.-Wikipedia “Inerrancy is nothing less than the affirmation …
