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15 mins read|06/09/21That a celestial phenomenon should be appropriated worldwide for iconic value or to illustrate a mythological legend makes perfect sense. One cannot copyright the rainbow.
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14 mins read|06/15/20When the direction of preaching is dictated by the hashtag issues of the day, the pulpit becomes the perpetual servant of CNN and Fox News. The news and social media cycle, with its chameleonic alterations from this all-important issue (this week) to that next-all-important issue (next week), does not create a rhythmic dance for the church but a sort of frenzied whack-a-mole worship. Now smack your homiletical hand down on this…now that…now this…now that. We need something better.
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10 mins read|02/11/20Virtue, like all good things, can easily be weaponized. And not only can, but constantly is. Indeed, I would argue that, for churchgoing, rule-following, tradition-honoring, morality-applauding people, virtue often becomes the cancer that we deem a badge of honor.
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1 min read|12/22/19Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen talk with Chad Bird about his Christmas/Communion hymn, The Infant Priest Was Holy Born.
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10 mins read|10/08/19Jesus knows your name. Whether you’re a boy named Sue or a beggar named Lazarus, the God who named that forgotten man has not forgotten you.
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14 mins read|07/24/19It’s no wonder we’re so attached to images; we are one. We are human hyphens between the celestial and the terrestrial.
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11 mins read|07/15/19Imagine yourself at an advanced age. What do you want to remember when you’ve forgotten virtually everything else? Sing that.
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11 mins read|06/01/19In the biblical world, having a few extra inches on your waistline was not a reason for dieting but dancing.
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10 mins read|02/21/19We have at least one thing going for us: we know the first of these two days —our birthday.
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18 mins read|12/17/18My nonfiction reads took me into Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and various varieties of Protestantism. Some of my favorites didn’t fall into neat and tidy categories, such as Jordan Peterson and Richard Selzer. It was difficult to narrow the list down, but here are my 12 1/2 favorites of the year.
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7 mins read|10/13/18Here is a lament I’ve written especially for victims of hurricanes. May it be for you, for your family, or for your church, a way to put into prayer the anguish of your souls.
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10 mins read|05/02/18The little psychologist within us is often hard at work to pinpoint the origin of life’s problems.
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