Deconstruction is a natural part of the cycle of spiritual renewal. And this cycle, like the cycle of the seasons, requires the death of the old before something better can germinate, take root, and grow in its place

Silent Saturday reveals not a triumphant, dominator God, but a God most fully known as an abandoned, brutalized, brown man lying naked on a cold slab. Today exposes God at his worst, or maybe at her best.

I don’t hate Easter. I just hate this Easter. Maybe it’s because I’m away from my family or that church just hasn’t been the same since the pandemic, or that the same old demons are haunting my heart. But when I stop to think about it, Easter has never been my favorite high holy day.

Between the cross and the resurrection sits silent Saturday. A day too dark for words, a day too important to forget. Frederick Nietzsche famously declared, “God is dead,” and today, he’s right. The worst thing has happened, God in Jesus is dead, and we had a hand in killing Him.

When we say '“Jesus died for us” we don’t mean it as some substitutionary atonement theory, or heavenly transaction, but rather from the perspective that Jesus died in solidarity with all our human suffering, transforming our pain…

It’s no small coincidence that yesterday we celebrated International Transgender Day of Visibility, a solemn occasion to give love, dignity, and full humanity to non-binary people who consistently suffer relentless attacks, abuse, and discrimination.

Even today among many conservative Christians, there is an almost fetish-like thrill in their disapproval of anyone who falls outside social, sexual, and spiritual lines of demarcation. We…

Historians tell us two parades took place that first Palm Sunday in Jerusalem. Two “kings” entered the city representing two very different kingdoms: The Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world.