Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured … Continue reading →

God, We are a people on the edge, Always called Always hesitant Your call is to action, Do this Teach all nations Love one another And still we cling To the familiar To the easy To the material. We also stand on a temporal edge Called always to look forward We briefly glance backwards Remembering … Continue reading →

The blow that brought the Enlightenment to its knees was certainly the one delivered by a patent clerk with his theory of relativity. Equally important in bringing down the hubristic enterprise, though less well known, was the contribution of Kurt Gödel. His incompleteness theorem undermined the efforts of his generation’s greatest mathematicians, who were determined … Continue reading →

Call to Worship “In God’s hands, cleanness is not fragile, but dirt vanishes at the touch of a holy God. Our God is holy and our God is everywhere. No matter what we suffer, no matter what mud puddles we have splashed in, whatever defilement we have embraced, God has run out ahead to greet … Continue reading →

I have no idea how often I will be able to post to this blog during the Spring term, but I hope often. I do write a sermon here and there, a paper with a bit of theology that might be worth sharing. The old blog sat idle, then was attacked by spammers and others … Continue reading →