The Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleBeyond Tribalism – 21st Century Pentecost
Ideas gleamed from Clay Nelson, John Shelby Spong, John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg The splendid preacher Clay Nelson of St. Matthew-in-the-city, Auckland, New Zealand, opened me up to a new way...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleBeyond Tribalism – Preaching a 21st Century Pentecost
Ideas gleamed from Clay Nelson, John Shelby Spong, John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg The splendid preacher Clay Nelson of St. Matthews-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand, opened me up to a new way...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleWorld Pride and Jesus: a sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost –...
This week as the city of Toronto welcomes millions to the World Pride Celebration, it is so very appropriate that the lectionary provides a reading that has the potential to open us up to a more...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
View ArticleWhat if Prayer is NOT Transactional But IS Transformational? – Luke 11:1-13
Clay Nelson, a colleague in New Zealand, tells the story about a journalist who was stationed in Jerusalem. The journalist’s apartment overlooks the Western Wall which is the holiest site in Judaism....
View ArticleThe Ascension Never Actually Happened – Ascension is Always Happening
Leaving Behind the Miraculous Jesus to Welcome the Human Jesus The celebration of Jesus’ Ascension is a church festival that I have always chosen to ignore. The ancient tradition that has Jesus...
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