A sermon written for both First Congregational Church of Fresno and Grace Community Church, UCC in North Fork, CA for April 18, 2021. https://youtu.be/BSThNyOp9yo The whole service for First Congregational Church of Fresno can be viewed here. Transcript: Last Sunday, a mother answered her phone and spoke to her son for the last time. Daunte … Continue reading Uncomfortable Repentance
Participating in Theological Praxis
New Year’s Revolutions
Image swiped from Facebook When I was a teen I misspelled New Year’s Resolutions as New Year's Revolutions in my diary. The things I was calling revolutions back in 1996 were hardly revolutionary. There was probably some self-depricating allusion to taming my triangular-shaped hairstyle or a star-struck vow to FIND Jonathan Taylor Thomas and WOO … Continue reading New Year’s Revolutions
#keepChristianityweird
Sometimes I think of the nature of the vocation I'm pursuing and I get caught up in how massively weird it is. It's only because it's become a dominant faith tradition through brute strength, colonization, and genocide that Christianity gets a free pass when it comes to bizarre beliefs. We've pushed our way into a … Continue reading #keepChristianityweird
Busy Little Sunshine 