As we wean ourselves off the holiday season, there is a part of me that wonders what it would be like to embody year-round the excitement of the season that celebrates the birth of Jesus.
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Reflection Roundup: Trust Is the Antidote to Panic
God’s image is presented to the world through the people of God, who use all available resources to meet the needs of the world because that’s what God does for us.
Reflection Roundup: Relationships Birth Understanding
The resurrection Spirit pursues us as we continually cycle through relational renewal with the evidential environment of the created world: with the people, the creatures, the living organisms therein.
Reflection Roundup: Identity Celebration
The doctrine of the Trinity is what the church represents as she bends knee to the other who is giving a hand up while standing on the shoulders of a third, infinitely in sync and completely acrobatic!
Reflection Roundup: Sacramental Hospitality
As the created world hosts humanity, we have much to learn from the soil, from the seeds. Stretching toward the light, cultivated hearts propagate God’s mission.
Now and Forever
It has been 40 days today. There’s certainly biblical significance to the span of 40 days. It seems to be a significant time marker for earth dwellers.
Articles for the Season of Lent
I invite you to explore this collection of Lenten articles and sermons from the Mosaic archives.
The End Is the Beginning
Even as some churches are dying, the kin-dom of God is not dying. We are not powerful enough to kill the redemptive movement of bringing humanity into fuller relationship with God.
Time Keeps on Slippin' ... Or Does It?
The Bible portrays time as a series of connected loops, each one taking us back to the past, even as it moves us into the future.
Rhythm
Daffodils push up through snow and icicles drip from tiny, chartreuse tree leaves.
Green grass burns in heat while lantanas flourish.
Advent and Christmas Collection
Whether you’re relatively new to Advent or know it like an old friend, I hope you find meaningful insights in this archive of Advent-related articles.
Messy Mangers
Waiting for a baby strengthens the hope, peace, joy, and love, crafting the manger that holds the baby. This is what Advent offers the church.
Lazarus, Come Out!
As I sit imaginatively with this story, I find myself identifying with Lazarus. I find myself in a season of life with God that feels grave.
Sibyl, Eliot, and Jesus
We preach life after death, denying death its victory, but perhaps we forget that death has always brought life.
Rituals and Memory
We are forgetful creatures who need rituals and celebrations to mark the time and place where something happened.
In My Happy Place
I like the ice and snow even more these days because of what it does to us. It stops us, cancels all our busyness, and slows us down.
Confessions from the Wilderness
I have been in an unexpected wilderness for the past four weeks, as my depression has stepped out of line for no apparent reason, and is upsetting my routine.
A Tale of Two Trees
Christmas is when we recall that the King was born, and reigns forever more, and that the arrival of Christ signaled the expiration date on all other kingdoms.
Advent: A Season of Vulnerability
The season of Advent culminates in the arrival of God in the form of a very vulnerable Jesus.
It Won’t Always Be This Way
The little control we have over things is simply how open and receptive we are to the changes that come our way.