Apology Blog

Leonard Cohen wrote many, many verses for his song, “Hallelujah.”  Most we never hear, but he spent years working on that song, only to have it … flop.  His original version wasn’t good.  It took the death of Jeff Buckley to put the song in the public’s consciousness.  The rest is history.  While I understand it isn’t a “Christian” song, Christians have a way of seeing Christ everywhere.   Every verse of the most-played version is a little work of art, but the powerful imagery conjured by the line,   “Love is not a victory march.  It’s a cold and...

Ignatius of Antioch is a central figure in my story of faith, so I thought I'd make a shirt to encapsulate a bit of his story.  But first... Years ago, I was occasionally asked to lead Sunday and Wednesday night classes at our small, rural church.  Growing up in such an environment was wonderful, but we had no teaching in theology or Christian history.  The general idea was to take the bible and apply it to our lives.   That's great as far as it goes, but I loved history, and where things come from was important to me, so...

Psalm 8 is short enough to include the whole text here, so let's read it: 1O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!You have set your glory above the heavens.2Out of the mouth of babies and infants,you have established strength because of your foes,to still the enemy and the avenger. 3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4what is man that you are mindful of him,and the son of man that you care for him? 5Yet you have made him a little lower...

Jesus calls humanity to humility.  He upsets the apple cart by trying to set the apple cart upright.

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.