Forward Day By Day – December 7, 2018

Friday, December 7, 2018

If the spectrum of human emotion could be equated to the keyboard on a piano, Psalm 22 would hit all eighty-eight keys. Advent is one of those seasons that can touch all our emotions as well. We joyfully prepare our hearts to welcome Jesus, and we sometimes weep over...

Forward Day By Day – December 6, 2018

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Let me be honest with you. The best thing—the bedrock of all the good things that there may be about me—isn’t about me. It is Jesus’ love for me—lived and died and resurrected and coming back. That is the best thing about me. This is the best thing about you too....

Forward Day By Day – December 5, 2018

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

I have found myself clinging to these words tighter and tighter in the last few years. I hold dear to my heart the hope that there will be a time of right judgment and a righteous judge coming to make things right. I dream about the day when we will live out of each...

Photographs: HIV/AIDS Clergy Prayer Breakfast 2018

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Clergy from all faiths gathered at St. George’s Episcopal Church during HIV/AIDS Awareness Week to renew their commitment and encourage faith communities to become the leaders in compassion and education for those affected by HIV/AIDS. More information about the...

Forward Day By Day – December 4, 2018

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

We don’t like having our dirty soul-laundry aired out. Usually, we set fire to the pile and walk right out of the house as we scream at the one who has laid bare our hidden sin. We punish prophets for exposing the reality of our own personal and corporate sins, and we...

Forward Day By Day – December 3, 2018

Monday, December 3, 2018

God tells us exactly how to stop doing damaging things to ourselves and each other: learn how to do good things, look out to make sure the right things are happening, rescue anyone who is in danger, be loving and present to all children you come across, those known...

Forward Day By Day – December 2, 2018

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Jeremiah and I didn’t really get to know each other until I was in my late 20s and early 30s. This figure from the Bible became like a faraway best friend to me. In those strange days of claiming my adulthood and trying to live into my baptismal covenant in concrete...

Forward Day By Day – December 1, 2018

Saturday, December 1, 2018

There was a day last summer that was one of my best days ever. I stood on the uneven floor of my wonky little kitchen in our funny old farmhouse and made fresh salsa out of vegetables from our own backyard. We ate that salsa on eggs from our very own hens. That...