Christianity
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Sonnet II – hope’s lament
I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed
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Epicenter-2007
It didn’t start there, and it would not end there, but I now recognize the events of that day as my life’s epicenter.
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Jagged Bones
I need you to see some flesh on the jagged bones of the life themes I’ve expressed in my poetry.
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As Ben Dances on the Edge of Heresy. Again.
Notice any gaps there?
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Blessings and Breakage – Thoughts on Christmas and 2017
Blessings and breakage live perilously close to one another. At times, blessings and breakage intertwine, to the point where you often can’t tell one from the other, if, in fact, they are not already one and the same.
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Pride. No Prejudice.
It’s June 16 – just past halfway through Pride Month 2017. If you are a Facebook friend of mine, you’ve noticed a steady stream of pictures and stories oriented around the struggles (and victories) of many in the LGBTQ community, many of whom I count as friends as well as brothers and sisters in Christ.…
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Man Learns of His Heresy in Friends’ Bathroom
I’m a bathroom reader. My own bathroom is well-stocked with reading materials, and I’m always pleased when I use a host’s bathroom and find it replete with “stuff” to read. I’m not fussy – give me a Reader’s Digest, a Guideposts – heck, I’d probably read a Watchtower if it were there. I’ve even been…
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Count Your Blessings?
To start the new year, one of things my church is doing is having each of us pull a star from a basket with a word on it and asking us to adopt it as our “word of the year” on which to meditate, study, reflect, etc. (the first one I pulled didn’t have a word…
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T+ 5 Days: Recalibration
Those of you who know me or follow my blog know I was disappointed with Tuesday’s election. I thought then (and still do) that the electorate had made a mistake. My initial Facebook “statement” follows: So, anyone who has followed my posts knows I am disappointed this morning. I think America has made a wrong…
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Decision 2016, What’s a Progressive to Do?
I’ve got three half-written blog drafts in my box, because I keep thinking “I’m going to write something that’s not political.” Alas, those entries will have to wait, because I need to get political, and I’ve promised myself and others I would keep it off of Facebook. I’ve long considered myself an independent. Over the years,…
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Isn’t it Ironic? Getting beneath the surface of the RFRA debate
Some of you who know me have heard my rant on Alanis Morisette’s 1996 hit, “Ironic”, where she sings about a lot of things that are NOT ironic. Rain on your wedding day? Not ironic – kind of a bummer. A black fly in your chardonnay? Gross, but not ironic. Good advice that you just…
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Ted Cruz does not represent me
If you have ALL of the answers to EVERYTHING, it’s not really ‘faith’ anymore, is it? And even if you think you have all of the answers (bless your heart), please don’t think that you have all of MY answers. Because you don’t. And neither does Ted Cruz.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 2
Pretty much every model of Christian thought I have sat under has happily fed my view that “The Kingdom of God” is mostly a place that is not here, in a time that is not yet.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 1
I make no claim on having “arrived” at anything other than to say I have been elsewhere and now am here.
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Caveats
I make no claim of being more correct than another in theology or orthodoxy, and in no way will I intend to belittle or judge anyone else’s theology, orthodoxy, or lack thereof.
defying atrophy 