Holiness Reeducation

Wow April has come in with a bang. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week and the start of a ridiculously busy April in my life. From Holy Week to Easter to coaching 7-10 year old girls fast pitch softball to trying to buy a building to working on budgets to District Assembly [...]

If we are supposed to honor our presidents today, what better way of doing so than with some presidential ramblings.   The Presidents of the United States are one fascinating bunch of men. They offer such a rich variety of figures to study, learn from, and complain about. Of course they have just about the [...]

Has anybody ever written about Whitney Houston and Jeremy Lin in the same sentence before? Well this week they are linked by the rambling web of theology that incorporates my mind. Whitney makes me sad The news of Whitney Houston’s death over the weekend frankly wasn’t shocking at all. As soon as I heard about [...]

A Bunch of Disconnected Thoughts from the Super Bowl and my life on this fine Monday morning. Two moments on Saturday afternoon brought me great joy as a father. First, my son sat with me on the couch and watched an entire Maryland basketball game with me. I could tell it was a moment of [...]

Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be kickers. Whenever a field goal kicker misses my mother in-law feels bad, not for him, but for his mom. Watching your kid carry that kind of burden is tough. Well after yesterday’s games, Lawrence Tyne’s mom is relieved and Billy Cundiff’s mom is thankful her son [...]

A bumper sticker I read when I lived in Colorado, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why are sunsets orange?” I am sure there will be a slew of new ones that say, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why does Colorado run on Tebow Time?” The hoopla around Tim Tebow, his polarizing [...]

Happy New Year! We are going to kick the new year of properly with a look ahead to 2012, a look back on 2011 and the top ten posts of the past year. Let’s do it…. A 2012 Focus Every year I come up with a theme for the year. This past year my theme [...]

Having lit the fourth candle of Advent, the moments until Christmas are but few. Only a couple of days remain until we experience the climax of all our preparation. I hope mine/your preparation has been as much spiritual as holiday driven. But in these final days leading up to Christmas our lives are certainly busy [...]

I found both of these items out shopping last week and was disturbed by both of them.   I was disturbed by the dancing Rabbi because of how much I wanted one. Good to know that commercialization of religious holidays has extended outside of Christianity to Judaism as well. The WWJD movie just made me [...]

So far away, so close The profound mystery of union with Christ Connected for eternity, separated by life People from every nook and cranny of the earth Bound together by the love of God Gone but here, absent and present   Women and men, girls and boys all the Son of God All of us [...]