Judgment: Asking Questions & Taking Positions (Spirituality of My Favorite Murder, Theme 3)
As a matter of spiritual discipline, the moment of judgment calls for a pause and openness to additional questions.
Remembering the Dead and Living Unbound By Time (To Hold Death’s Hand continued)
The body of Christ is not a mere affinity group, a subculture, or a specific congregation, but a profound cosmic existence that finds its true nature and purpose as it gathers with the recognition that it is not limited by walls or years.
Death & Community: The Body Gathered (To Hold Death’s Hand continued)
…you might be thinking that while these ideas are somewhat logical, you personally could never stomach dealing with the bodies of the dead.
Communion: Christ’s Body Broken and Poured Out (To Hold Death’s Hand Cont.)
Jesus told his disciples, “do this in remembrance of me.” What was the “this” of which Jesus spoke? Was it simply eating together or something more?
To Hold Death’s Hand: Baptismal Identity, the Living Dead
Living as one who is already dead has the power to move the Christian into a reality that is deeper than being a good person…
To Hold Death’s Hand: Baptismal Identity, Dying and Rising
The baptismal font is not merely a bath, where we are washed clean of sin, but a moment of potential drowning.
To Hold Death’s Hand: A Christian Manifesto on Care of the Body at the Time of Physical Death
…death will continue to grip our souls insofar as baptism is disconnected with death and the baptized do not hold death’s hand.
Annealing Souls 