Category: Sermons

We live in a state of constant crisis. Every day we seem to hear about some new threat which potentially could unravel our lives and our world. Over the past few years, it's become clear that our society need crisis. It craves it. For our society has learned that it can mobilize the politics of [...]

Prayer: The Psalmist says, you, O God, are king. Your throne is established from the foundations of the world. And your commands are faithful; your words give life. As we meditate on your words, may they transform our lives that we may be a house for your life in the world. Amen.   The kingship [...]

It's been over forty years since conscription officially ended and a volunteer military was instituted in its place. However, it has now become clear that this “all-voluntary military” is really just a draft with a different name. One that targets and feeds off of the desperation of minorities, the poor, and other individuals with limited [...]

In Nuremberg, Stephanie and I were able to visit the Germanic National Museum. I wanted to go because they were showing the works of Lucas Cranach, the close friend of Martin Luther who almost singlehandedly invented the visual vocabulary for Luther's rebellion against the Catholic Church. Today we would say that Lucas Cranach was Martin [...]