When Misogyny is Your God

It begins in Scripture – which, as you know, I love very much – when we are taught that God is male. That maleness is repeated over and over through…

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When Your God is Success

The prayer of Jabez in a short plea for prosperity in 1 Chronicles 4 that became a sensation 15 years ago. Bruce Wilkinson made a lot of money buying into…

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When Your God is Power

Growing up where I did and in the little church I did, I had no idea that people like me – White, Straight, Protestant, Male – had any advantages over…

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When Your God is Anger

Most people through history have been raised to believe in an angry God. We are taught that “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10) instead of…

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Who is Chosen?

This past week my friend Rabbi Brian Michelson of Temple Oheb Shalom presented a wonderful program about being Jewish at a time of growing anti-Semitism. He not only spoke of…

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God Sees You

Next Monday is Transgender Day of Visibility. It is a day to recognize the accomplishments and right to exist of a community that has, for too long, been the focus…

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What’s Love Got to Do With It?

The wonderful pastoral theologian, Father Richard Rohr, recently posed this question: If our love of God doesn’t directly influence, or even change, how we engage in the issues of our…

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Does God Teach Us Lessons?

Anyone who knows me knows that I have always loved wrestling. I have done it since I was 14, having competed in college, and then in open tournaments until I…

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