Anabaptist and Quaker essays, sermons, and other writings
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate… I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. – Romans 7:15-18 NRSV … her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has […]
How many of us still believe in “good guys and bad guys”? Are there such things? We live in a world where political commentators have been describing the difference between parties in starker terms than a lot of recent science fiction movies or even some video games have drawn the […]
Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. Take a moment and read Luke 6:32-38. Take another moment and read it again. Read it a third and a fourth time too. Such a simple, beautiful, and convicting passage. Eugene Peterson in his Message translation of the bible puts it this […]
This is the first Sunday of Lent 2021, but as Diana Butler Bass has named, in some ways, the entire last year has felt like a season of Lent. Lent is that liturgical season of forty days (not counting Sundays) prior to Easter, in which Christians have for centuries taken […]