On my commute home this evening I was listening to the Fundamentalists podcasts hosted by Peter Rollins in which he mentioned an event called ‘the Belfast Agreement’ or because of the day it was signed, ‘The Good Friday Agreement.’ This was an agreement signed Good Friday, April 10, 1998 that …
Creative Love in a Conflicted World: Mending Divides as Peacemakers
I hope that the beginning of Autumn is treating you well. It certainly feels good to move into a new season. For me, a new season is a time to lean into refreshment. Fresh starts. Fresh patterns. Fresh opportunities. Yet at some level, the change of season doesn’t solve the …
Whose Fault is This? (Jesus, Scapegoats, Good & Evil)
I wanted to share something from a Jesus story that has come to mean a lot to me. This particular story happens like many stories of Jesus… he never seems to be looking for trouble, but how he engages with it always seems to lead to controversy. The story is …
Jonah Knew God (But Didn’t Love like God): What this Odd Prophet Teaches Us about Peacemaking
Jonah has always been one of my favorite books in the bible. Just thinking about it brings back memories of flannel-graphs, paper pictures of x-rayed fish with a man kneeling somewhere near the lower intestine and Sunday school stories about a little man who thought he could disobey God. I …