by Jeremy | Aug 4, 2017 | Sabbath Thoughts
Imagine reading through Christ’s instructions to the seven churches of Revelation, only to get to the end of chapter three and discover an eighth message to an eighth congregation. Your congregation. What if it was there, plain as day, and you’d just never...
by Jeremy | Jul 28, 2017 | Sabbath Thoughts
I will always have a lot of respect for Job. He catches a lot of flak for his behavior toward the end of the book, and it turns out, yeah, when you’re at the lowest point of your life and dealing with three insensitive and unhelpful “friends,” some...
by Jeremy | Jul 7, 2017 | Sabbath Thoughts
In Washington, DC, in a museum just down the road from the Smithsonian, there’s an old, beat-up piece of wood on display. It’s an important piece of wood, although you might not know it just by looking at it. On its surface, which is covered in gouges from...
by Jeremy | Jun 2, 2017 | Holy Day
So often, Pentecost feels to me like the last ellipsis before we trail off into deafening silence. We have this meaningful, tangible build-up to Passover, then right into Unleavened Bread, then we pause for a bit, then Pentecost, and then… And then nothing. For a...
by Jeremy | May 26, 2017 | Sabbath Thoughts
I know of three ways to move a mountain. The first is to attempt some kind of herculean effort, tearing the whole thing off its base and tossing it aside. This is my usual approach, and it has never worked, not once. As a bonus, I end up feeling discouraged about my...
