Doing the same thing over and over? Whether it’s the same relationship drama or returning to the addiction, over and over, as if self-destruction were our default mode. Almost as
New Year’s Resolutions–yearly promises to improve, usually forgotten by February–could this secular tradition to build our spiritual lives? At Trinity, we can, using our four Advent themes as a way
#relevant Don’t tell me what to do! One thing that makes religion so irrelevant today is its tendency–even purpose–to tell people what to do. Once people probably needed that sort
The Christmas shopping season is upon us, and with that the annoying Christmas ads. The one I’m finding particularly annoying right now is a car ad that tells the story
That’s the song in my head, and it isn’t too inappropriate because Christmas is just a couple days away. Our Gospel story today even gets us right in the Christmas
Believe in something bigger! That’s the lottery’s slogan, hinting at the possibility that if we were just daring enough and noble enough to buy a lottery ticket and believe, we
My assumption that the world is not ending tomorrow has left me stressing over all the preparations still necessary for Christmas. Presents to wrap, cards to write, housework–too
Here is a poem which seems perfect for this first week of Advent. It is written by a Brazilian liberation theologian. What is Hope? It is a presentiment that imagination
