Universalism in Revelation?

The following is an essay I wrote in my Interpreters of Revelation class at Duke Divinity.  This was a tremendous class where I learned so much about a book that had long been shrouded in mystery for me.  It is still mysterious but I am no longer afraid to talk about it.  In fact, beginning [...]

A Theology of Preaching: Prophecy, Proclamation, Pentecostal

 
             What is a theology of preaching?  Or, more to the point, what is my theology of preaching?  When I am asked a question like this my knee-jerk reaction is to cite someone who has said great things about preaching such as Bonhoeffer’s The Proclaimed Word or Dostoevsky’s The Dream [...]

An Easter Economy for Easter People

In 1773 in Boston a protest erupted over unfair taxation.  People who left one land to come to another, the land of the free they called it, were asserting their rights to live independently of a monarch.  The Boston Tea Party was instrumental in starting a revolution.  On April 15th, 2009 hundreds if not thousands [...]

The Grace of Seeing

Easter people, I believe, have been given a new way of seeing.  We see the world as going somewhere, somewhere good and glorious, all because the tomb is empty.  It is more that a “glass is half full” mentality.  It is about accepting all that is before us as Gift.  How we choose to receive [...]

Resurrection Challenge

If you observed a Holy Lent this year than you have had a time of sacrifice – a time where you have given something up as you walk with Jesus to the cross.   Easter comes and goes, freeing us from our rigorous sacrifice of Lent and many of us are grateful that it is [...]

The Grace of Gardening

I do not think it is a coincidence that God’s story with us begins in a Garden (Genesis 1-3) and also finds fulfillment, or resurrection in a Garden.   How fitting that men and women find the risen Christ in a garden, even mistaking him for the gardener, tending to the flowers around tombs full of [...]