City Futures – Developer Heaven
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations, you will be called Repairer of…
Author: crookedshore (page 15)
City Futures – the Maternal City
I’m reading the Old Testament prophets for descriptions of the City and wondering about contemporary analogues. I want to read…
Another Generation of Evangelicals and the Old Guard
A friend tweeted a link to this article about a new kind of evangelicalism the other day which I found…
Between Mystery and Committee on the way to Pentecost
As we get closer to Pentecost, things get stranger and stranger. Just 40 days after the resurrection is the startling…
A Searching Question on the way to Pentecost
We read it last week at this time (Acts 1:1-11). The story of how, after his suffering, he showed himself…
Ched Myers on the Resurrected Jesus
The resurrected Jesus appears first as a Stranger – indeed as one needing hospitality. Let this be a Christological lesson…
Worship, the Poor and Life or Death Decisions in Mark's Gospel
In Mark’s Gospel, the greatest commandment, Jesus says, is to love God with everything and your neighbour as yourself (12:29-30).…
Confusion on the way to Pentecost
That Sunday morning, well, all that they wanted had arrived. Their Jesus risen from the dead, vindicated in the face…
Making Pies – Patty Griffin
This song does it for me every time. I love the cinematic narrative – the older woman who lost her…
Dust and more dust and Annie Dillard
Recent mornings, as I get into the car, I notice the back window is covered by a gathering layer of…