Category: Being Human

  • Over the years I have discovered in teaching required religion courses at the college level (which students were required to take – and perhaps many did not want to be there) that there is a built in bias towards religious vocabulary, religious language (perhaps in many cases, legitimately). Words like God, sin, salvation, repentance, obedience,…

  • I concluded my last post with the following statement: “the next post offers some thoughts on how God became one of us in the person of Jesus, dwelt among us, for the purpose of restoring our breathing, restoring us (even, to re-story our lives), so that we might catch our breath again and be able…

  • One of the metaphors I have used for life and ministry has to do with breathing. The act of purposeful breathing is something that brings calmness to us, helps us to destress, decrease our heart rate and blood pressure – all important things for me as I age. Yet, also, in that breathing is foundational…