During last night’s vigil, my friend Eric Cedillo shared with us a heart rending story he’d told me on the phone earlier that day. It’s a story I want to repeat here, because I think it’s a powerful counter-narrative to…
Read moreDuring last night’s vigil, my friend Eric Cedillo shared with us a heart rending story he’d told me on the phone earlier that day. It’s a story I want to repeat here, because I think it’s a powerful counter-narrative to…
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Eric describes the whirlwind of this past week, since the shooting at Dallas Ice…
Thank you to Allie Spillyards NBC5‘s for the chance to sit down and process yesterday’s terrible shooting.
“Community and Compassion.”
If you’ve been at Kessler Park United Methodist Church any time in the past few months, you’ve heard me…
I am seeing the breaking news of an active shooter, possibly multiple persons, connected with ICE Headquarters in Dallas.
Yes, this is indeed where we hold our weekly prayer vigils on the sidewalk on every Monday morning.
That said, I…
Read moreSurprise!
I’m happy to announce that in honor of my birthday-week, I have a big announcement:
I’ve got A NEW ALBUM! Coming soon…
It’s called: “Unfinished Business.”
Because that’s what it is. This surprise release is my own unfinished business…
Read moreMonday morning vigil at ICE HQ in Dallas.
A reminder today that Christians are called to be those who stand against violence, whether that be assassination or violence done against migrants.
God rejected the state violence of Jesus’ execution and…
Read moreThese days, my Mondays start early. In ways that are not easy for me, I'm out the door to our clergy vigils with little more than one cup of coffee in my belly, and across town to ICE Headquarters on…
Read moreI've had the basic concept of this song for decades now.
An absolutely true retelling of our life together...and, I'd like to hope, an important message for our time now....
Hope you enjoy it.
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THE STREETS OF OLD PRESTON…
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Today, Eric builds on our continuing discussion of…
Read moreI've had some vision of this song for about 20 years now, ever since Dennise and I realized our common linkeage to my childhood neighborhood.
Something about our fraught, divided, time now helped the tumblers click into place. Wrote the…
Read moreI understand the frustration with Texas passing the redistricting plan. But, as usual, I see many commentators bagging on the Texas Dems for coming back.
I don't know what these folks are reading, but from the moment they left, I…
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This morning, we unpacked Jesus’ message to not “worry about…
Read moreLast week, I published an essay on these concepts.
Today, I’m back with an extended video clip from “Coffee on the Porch,” where I use the same images in visual storytelling about “The Enemy Making Process.”
I’m…
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Today, I spend significant time unpacking this essay and it’s concepts:
NOTE: I…
Read more"Forty days and nights of rain have washed this land
Jesus said the money changers in this temple will not stand
Find your flock, get them to higher ground
Flood waters rising and we're Caanan bound
We've been traveling over…
If I had one book I could force everyone to read1 it would be Sam Keen’s “Faces of the Enemy.”
Besides the Bible, no single book has had a more profound impact on my life. I reread it…
Read moreThis week's Gospel lesson feels connected last week's, and is a familiar passage on much the same theme:
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Last week, we talked about the "man who built bigger barns," so…
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