Fear and Its Friends: A Poem for Lent 1
Dance Like David Danced
Whenever I read the 2 Samuel passage about David dancing as the Ark of the Covenant is brought into the city, I hear an old Tom Franzak song playing in my head.
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May I Have This Dance?
I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:23 Perichoresis Something within me denies my arrhythmic feet. A voice challenges: DANCE! Follow the steps of falling snow, the … Read More
An Invitation to Dance
If Pentecost is a celebration of the Holy Spirit, then Trinity Sunday is an invitation to dance. Yes, I mean exactly what I said. And here’s why… The Trinity is not something we can logically understand. Theologians have tried for centuries and it literally does not add up. We can get trapped in the language … Read More
On Dancing and Deserts
RCL – July 15, 2012 – Seventh Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 with Psalm 24 or Amos 7:7-15 with Psalm 85:8-13 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 Since reading these texts a few days ago, I keep hearing an old Tom Franzak song in my head. It was called “David Danced” and had a very … Read More