The silence after violence: Liturgies of the Absurd
I know all about liturgy. I also know a thing or two about waiting. I know about silence, and the darkness, and I know about walking in...
Nero Redivivus: Reality of the Absurd
“If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia,” said Mark Lee, an American Christian who voted for Donald...
Poetry review: Bob Hudson's Kiss the Earth When You Pray
I have a memory of Bob Hudson, a memory that at once prompts me to reflexively hike up my pants and turn my face toward Jerusalem (or...
Winning contests of the absurd: Voting is not the problem, but winning and losing...
The question is not whether brothers and sisters in Christ should participate in democracy. It’s just that the biblical responses to the...
The Salvation of Politics: Justified by our Arrogance
Observations that Friends and Brethren will disagree with. A Friend once asked me to identify a center, or a sense of a center, at...
Is your church worshiping the Beast, or just avoiding an uncomfortable tension in truths...
Confusing for many within the context of liberal democracies is how national entities often act in opposition to the gospel, or the...
Dualities of the Absurd: Is Apocalyptic a necessary dualistic regime?
Ellen Charry writes that “New Testament writers anticipated, or perhaps provoked, Christian clashes with the empire.” She suggests that...
Neither conservative nor liberal: just absurd
The story of Jesus and his acceptance of the cross as the indicator of the success of his ministry demonstrates a religious ethic that...
John of Patmos trumpets power of the cross toward Christians for America
I once heard John Shelby Spong tell a crowd of admirers that the Book of Revelation should have never been included in the canon. My...
Anthems of the Absurd: Rejecting the co-equality claims of Caesar and Nation-States.
Preparing to write, I read something that not only reminded me of early Quaker troubles in 17th-century England related to oath-taking,...
