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Practice What You See – Thoughts from the Edge
How would Paul compel two women to get along when it is recorded that he and John Mark had a falling out that extended to he and Barnabas? Time softens? Maybe. This week’s RCL texts are mashed up in...
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Generosity and Fear – Thoughts from the Edge
How do you respond to generosity? What about when someone demonstrates generous trust in you? The Gospel text for Sunday seems to create an interesting tension between generosity and fear. And, there...
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Blurring Others – Thoughts from the Edge
I enjoy photography. Some photos come out to my liking. Others not so much. On those occasions when the subject appears blurred, I know that my focus was poor, I moved as I clicked the shutter button,...
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Cities and Gardens – Thoughts from the Edge
What would it look like to rebuild cities and plant new gardens. The imagery is at work in the Isaiah text for the third Sunday in the Season of Advent. Jerusalem lay desolate and in ruins. How would...
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Bringing Back the Podcast
After a long hiatus, Thoughts from the Edge returns as a regular feature here on the blog. Consider it a reprise. In 2009 I began the podcast aimed at offering a reflection on one or more of the...
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Legitimizing Power, The Poor, and Jesus
What symbols get used to legitimate power? Maybe The Whitehouse is used by some to legitimate democracy in a Country where it appears we are ruled by an Oligarchy. Maybe not. Could the Church House, or...
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Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah
New Year’s Eve I will visit Dr. Womack. The question will be, “Have my eyes changed?” My wife tells me that the color of my eyes change. Here I am talking about the strength of my eyes. Will I need to...
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More Than Jeremaids or, John On the Edge
Cataloging your list of woes is not the same as doing something about a problem. Sometimes it seems Christians spend more time complaing about things as they are rather than taking an action to...
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Whips and Systems or, The Better Question May Be, “Why Them?”
If you have read here for very long you likely know I am a fan of Inigo Montoya. The daft swordsmen in Princess Bride who puzzles over linguistic imprecision. His almost constant refrain makes the...
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The Sequel? or Living the End(ing) of Mark
What would it mean to Harry Potter fans had J.K. Rowling stopped her series at the second book? Or, how would it play out had we not had the rest of the story in the Hunger Games Triology? Or, what...
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Conveyed Truth, Expressed Love – Thoughts from the Edge
There is little doubt Peter’s experience with Cornelius brought the reality of reconciliation in Jesus to bear on his understanding of the way the world works. Old lines had been crossed. Former...
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Helping Others to See – Thoughts from the Edge
David asked where the pic was of me with my new “bi-focals.” Yes, it had to come to that. Dr. Womack put me through the rigors of an exam. He calmly noted I had not had my eyes check in more than 12...
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Unity? What Will I Do? – Thoughts from the Edge
A certain perception of unity often leaves people critical of Christianity. The varieties of Christian denominations dwarf Basking Robins 31 flavors. In fact, just the varietals of Baptists leave...
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Constitutive Community – Thoughts from the Edge
The story constitutes the community. It is not that it is only story. It is just that it is not less than story. When we talk about what constitutes a local Christian community of faith we cannot help...
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Trifle Not – Thoughts from the Edge
We always told our girls, “Give it your best effort.” Our hope was to encourage them to work hard in school or on the playing field of whatever sport they chose to play. We could tell whether or no...
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Sheer Silence – Thoughts from the Edge
Silence at Animas Forks Paul Littleton joins this week’s episode of Thoughts from the Edge. The Church in America has lost its voice. No, not every church. But, many churches and collectively we seem...
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Vision, Freedom, Character – Thoughts from the Edge
Patty and I happened into an antique shop while on vacation. There is a stretch of Hollister, MO that offers a quaint “old town” feel. I snapped this picture at Patty’s recognition that it would be a...
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Water, Places, Hospitality – Thoughts from the Edge
Recently Chris Seay described the completion of a water well in Haiti. He just as well heralded a vein of gold had been hit. In a country ravaged by hurricanes and earthquakes in the past couple of...
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Good Friday Reflection … Thoughts from the Edge
Good Friday cannot be understood as “good” apart from the Resurrection. Here is another reflection that has at its center the contention we must “practice resurrection.” Copyright © 1999-2018 This feed...
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Hope and Reality – Thoughts from the Edge
The new realities of the Kingdom break into the world in some important ways. Our continued living out the resurrection of Jesus may give hope to people who have lost confidence in our adversarial...
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