Geoffrey Holsclaw
Holiday parties are the times when you run into people you haven’t seen in a while. Maybe people you have been avoiding, people that just rub you the wrong way. And parties also have unexpected guests. Those uninvited intrusions that just throw everything off. While Christmas is something people look forward to, Advent reminds us […]
There was a time when fundamentalists took a stand for truth, without regard for wielding power. Now it seems they continue to grasp for power without regard for truth. We have a crisis of evidence revealing a quest for power. The continuing lawsuits by Trump to discredit the Nov. 3rd election, the continued […]
What happened to Brené Brown? What happened to Empathy? Vulnerability? Remember how 10 years ago (or less) everyone was reading and raving about Brené Brown. We were all learning about the courage of vulnerability, and the power of empathy, and the gift of imperfection. Where is all that now? “The politics of Trump happened.” […]
We want to know what is going to happen. We want to know how to prepare. We want to control outcomes and minimized disappointment. As a culture we have an addiction to prediction. My Coming Christmas Money One Christmas I asked all my relatives for money — cash money. Then I started guessing how much […]
I believe in Prophecy I have made life altering decisions based on receiving a direct word from God. I pressed on in faith and prayer when things were confusing. I went back and remembered what was heard. I believe in prayer — that it actually does stuff in the world. I have prayed desperate prayers […]
On days like today, some get offended that I would remind us that no matter what happens today, “Jesus is still Lord.” I’m often told that this statement — on a day like this — minimizes people’s pain, disappointment, or oppression, that it stifles a legitimate need to lament, that it enables pietistic withdraw when […]
How would you responded to brutal oppression? When the Word of God took on flesh — the flesh of a middle-class Jewish family far from the cultural elite in Jerusalem — when Jesus was born and grew up, Israel had already suffered the oscillations of at least 300 years of oppression and occupation. Four […]
Riots in the streets across the country. Thwarted political kidnapping here in Michigan.Threats of violence from the Right and the Left. Can Jesus really speak into our situation? Rigged and stolen elections. Systematic racial oppression. Denial of religious freedoms. Is the way of Jesus really up to the task? On the one side, people fear we’ll never […]