In the United States, we recently reached a grim milestone: 1 in 500 lives have been claimed by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Regular readers of this newsletter know that this statistic includes my own […]
Archive | Eschatology
God is Not a Math Problem: Feasting on the Holy Trinity.
For the past thousand years, friends of God aspiring to the Way of Jesus have traditionally celebrated this first Sunday after Pentecost as “the Feast of the Holy Trinity.” In […]
Earth to Earth, Dawn to Dawn: Grace Notes in Loss and Living
Dying, Christ absorbs our death. Rising, Christ restores our life. Christ returns again in glory Ever-New Even now As we gather here. How do we best acknowledge those who have […]
Something Strange Is Happening (Holy Saturday)
Entombed, Jesus is befriending our subterranean selves. In the places we rarely acknowledge, he is urging us to wake up! What gifts of high strangeness does Holy Saturday hold for […]
Rivers and Trees of Life | Revelation: A New Illustrated Translation | Michael Straus and Jennifer May Reiland
The following is an excerpt from a haunting new rendition, The Book of Revelation: A New Translation by Michael Straus and Jennifer May Reiland. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there […]