Unity

The Common Weeping and Coronavirus

Our feelings are running amok these days. Anger, yes, fear, yes, and with good reason, but let them flow on through you, like a […]

Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Belonging to A Family of Faith, The Body of Christ, March 2020

Jesus came not only to start a movement—a movement of the love of God and neighbor—he came to form a community, a family of faith, […]

Baptism: Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Following Jesus and Being the Beloved, March 2020

This season, Lent to Easter, let’s ponder Baptism as a living symbol of the Christian life. It is, in my mind, the most complete and […]

Members of One Another in the Body of Christ 9/19

The church at Corinth was having issues! Don’t all churches? Someone cracked: “Never join a perfect church because it won’t be perfect anymore!” Carlyle Marney […]

God and the World Religions 8/19

Let’s talk today about God and the World Religions. It is an important, if not urgent matter. In the decade before 9/11 Catholic theologian Hans […]

Welcome One Another 8/18

America and the American Church are badly divided these days. Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative, rich/poor, urban/rural, people of color/white, etc. Our Redness and Blueness is tearing the […]

The Honda and the Bar Mitzvah 8/18

Can a church be a people of clear Christian identity and at the same time be open to truth found in other religions? Can we […]

What We Wear To Church 7/18

The passage for today, Colossians 3:12-17, was read at our wedding. If it applies to marriage, it first applied to life together in Christ, Christian […]

Babel and Pentecost

These two stories, Babel and Pentecost, cause us to ponder the unity that is disobedience and the unity that is the gift of God, the […]