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Darl is my favorite character in As I Lay Dying. Maybe I identify with him. If it is, it might be only because I love the way he speaks. Faulkner struck me first with this: The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light

Death is exhausting. "Let the dead bury the dead," recommends Jesus to the man, the man who's lost his father. I lost my father three years ago. I felt his hand twitch one last time in the earliest hours of August 6. His slow, solitary death, alone with his family in a Fort Worth hospice,

Last night, we had our first Theology Circle on Bonhoeffer. Twelve of us, beers in hand, crammed together on a long picnic table in the back of a low-lit, noisy Brooklyn bar and talked about the meaning of "church". To set the scene, I started out talking about Bonhoeffer's life and context and how much

So, I've been asked to preach at St. Lydia's tomorrow night. The text is Luke 12:13-34. If you'd like to join us, find us in Brooklyn. Arrive any time between 6:30 and 7pm.

There has been a groundswell among the American population in reaction to Sandy Hook. Here again, a mentally unstable person had access to considerable, legal firepower. It was George W. Bush who let the Clinton-era Federal Assault Weapon Ban (AWB) expire in September 2004. After eight years, four of them in Obama's first term, no