The Gift of Time

This series on time will certainly be an instance where I will learn more than I will teach.  If time and I had a facebook relationship status, it would be “it’s complicated.”  My waking and sleeping are at odd times and of irregular durations.  I question whether I can change that, mostly because I don’t really want to.  It works …

The Problem (and the Promise) of the Trinity

One week out of div school and I’m already digging back through my textbooks, trying to remember what it is I spent all that time learning.  This is that sort of Sunday – Trinity Sunday.  “Trinity” is probably a word that every Christian knows, but few understand and even fewer care to understand.  I might be a member of all …

Beginnings

I will be brief.  This Sunday, Pentecost, Church in the Cliff will gather to ordain me as a Baptist minister.  It is thrilling.  I have worked toward this for the past four years and it is a delight and an honor to be affirmed by a group of people that I love so much.  It is also terrifying.  You must …

Jubilee: Release of the Captives

Mother’s Day at Church in the Cliff Ordination Thanks This week, I am living the story of too much: Polishing off last minute dissertation edits and sending it off to the library system, completing annoying exit forms and surveys for institutional liability purposes, consulting with a suddenly booming list of people with complex counseling needs, picking up graduation regalia, writing …