I still remember vividly and fondly the sermon preached at my Ordination Service in 1999. We sat in Green Lake, WI and listened as Rev. Willie Jemison, one of the first black pastors in the Covenant, told us what it was like to be a slave. Having someone who felt that experience as part of […]
I’ve always loved the shore. Swimming is fun, and sunbathing or beach games were alright, but there is something about the shore, the line where the water met land. My favorite was the ocean. The shoreline in constant flux, constantly coming and going, with each wave, with each tide; transition in flux. There’s something about […]
A plague hits the world, spreading across the globe until every person on earth is infected. The gestation period is 4 months, at which time victims die a painful, horrible death. Fear grips the world and people begin to turn on one another. Until a report comes that one person has a cure. What is […]
Our desire for God’s justice is a tricky thing. We desire it for others, for those who have hurt us, who have “dug a pit” for me. But not for ourselves. I am a pretty intolerant driver. When everyone obeys the rules and does what they should (by my standards of right and wrong anyway), […]
When we have the choice between salvation as a free gift of grace, requiring only gratitude and acceptance, or salvation as an earned prize, requiring obedience and constant striving, why do we always choose the later? The Jews did it though they followed and worshiped the same God that we do. And we still do […]