Someone struggling with serious health problems wrote to me today and said, “Dave, some of the stuff you’ve faced with your MS is horrific. How in the world do you keep trusting God and believing he loves you?” What a great question. With her permission I have reprinted my answer, below, because I wonder if itContinue reading “How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God”
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God and Country
I don’t really believe in this idea of “God and country.” I think it’s actually harmful. (I figured I might as well go whole-hog today and alienate whatever Christians this will alienate.) Before you shut me down, unfriend me, and come to my house with a pitchfork, I hope you will hear me out. TheseContinue reading “God and Country”
No One Owns God
God is available and accessible as our breath itself and no religion is going to be able to portion that out, control it or say who gets it. — Richard Rohr, OFM (@RichardRohrOFM) May 10, 2013 This tweet from Richard Rohr says God is accessible to every person on the planet, that no one ownsContinue reading “No One Owns God”
Personal Pan Pizza Jesus
It’s evening. You’re hanging around at Pizza Hut with your friends. After some discussion and a bit of debate (and a brief filibuster from Zac, who’s allergic to everything), you place your order. The pizza comes and everyone digs in. When the evening is finished and everyone goes home, there are one or two slices of pizza stillContinue reading “Personal Pan Pizza Jesus”
From Religion to Spirituality
In my last post I said that in this one I’d deal with the question of how to learn to spot God in all the places where God is (which of course is everywhere). If I could boil it down to one simple thing, it would be that we need to move from religion toContinue reading “From Religion to Spirituality”
I Saw God
The night before last I took my daughter and her friend to a punk concert (NOT a “Christian” concert) in Detroit, at The Shelter, and I saw God. The crowd was great, even though I was probably twenty years older than the next oldest person there. Four bands played. They were all fun, and allContinue reading “I Saw God”
The Actual Message of Jesus
Interesting how if you try to mobilize Christians against violence, injustice, and greed, which Jesus actually talked about, you are called a liberal, radical, do-gooder, treehugger, or whatever. If you try to mobilize them against taking “In God we trust” off our money, against abortion, and against gays, which Jesus spoke nothing about, you areContinue reading “The Actual Message of Jesus”
God’s Love, prt. 4
No wonder we suffer from the spiritual schizophrenia we do in the church. No wonder the history of the church is full of outright atrocities, committed in the name of Jesus, prince of peace and Lord of Love. These spring directly from human beings who ultimately don’t know whether they are loved or hated, and from theContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 4”
God’s Love, prt. 3
Remember, Jesus himself invited the comparison of God’s love to the love of human parents for our children. If you extend your love to your children constantly, every second, for a specified number of years, are you then justified in killing or torturing them for having not responded? Could you even desire to? IfContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 3”
God’s Love, prt. 2
[Start at the beginning of this series] Jesus invited us to understand God’s love by thinking of our love for our own children. He did this mainly in two places. One is the parable of the prodigal son. The other is when he said, “If you, though you are evil, know how to give good giftsContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 2”
Temp Arbor 