A Christian Response to a Dawah Pamphlet
The following is a rather lengthy response I made to a Muslim friend who sent what I believe was an online pamphlet of sorts from a Dawah site, comparing Christian and Muslim beliefs, and I…
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A Theology of Gender: Julian of Norwich and the Image of God
Gender is a big topic in general, and there has been lots of discussion about how we should approach it from a Christian perspective. You can’t separate two things which weren’t already joined. As a…
Yellow Caution Tape at the Last Supper
Trinity Sunday – a cosmic leap indeedFrom the second week in Lent until nowWe bless ourselves with holy chemicalsAnd the awkward elbow-bump of peace25% capacity in the Upper RoomBetween each disciple an empty chairAnd yellow…
A Meeting in the Marketplace
The heavy spring rains had finally let up and the sun was shining brightly in the eastern sky. Before my dear Jesse left to meet with the other town leaders, he anxiously surveyed the progress…
Notre Dame de Purell
A furore virus coronam libera nos, Domine The holy water fonts have been withdrawn,and in their places bottles of Purell.Blessing ourselves with scented alcohol,to remind us of baptismal promises. For now, we must not shake…
Good News: The Strange Starkness of the Gospel of Mark
I have just read through the Gospel of Mark for my Lenten preparation, and the starkness of it is really quite haunting, and sometimes jarring. I feel like it’s the gospel where Jesus comes across…
Exaltation
We Christians are condemned Ever to be crucified. It is our binding and our breaking. It is our only hope and home. It is our only exaltation. There, upon the tree, We must be mocked…
God’s Good Chaos: A Reflection on the Problem of Evil
The problem of Evil is one of most staggering dilemmas for the human mind. If we define it as such, then we acknowledge a spiritual component, and yet if we do that, we also acknowledge…
Abraham’s Sacrifice: Reflections from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
In the past, I’ve had some interesting conversations about the controversial story of Abraham/Ibrahim being asked by God to sacrifice his beloved son, which appears (with the variation of Isaac or Ishmael) in both the…