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
Working Together for Justice and Mercy
Alternatives to Policing and Other Resources
After the horrific killing of George Floyd by police officers and the horrifying spectacle of Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper because he asked her to leash her dog in a wildlife area earlier this week, I wanted to create a space to compile the resources I have used and especially those that … Continue reading Alternatives to Policing and Other Resources
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 