Wrestling with God

:: An Epiphany Sermon and Artwork ::

"Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak."

A little over a year ago, I found myself sitting outside a church on the cold, damp bench of a picnic table, dropping the F-bomb on God. Repeatedly.  

I was halfway into a two week intercultural immersion with our unhoused, hungry, mentally ill, and abused neighbors on the Route 1 corridor of Fairfax County. We were meeting some of the most vulnerable people in society, hidden and invisible amidst...

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An Identity: Liturgical Artist

We are always trying to fit in, label ourselves, define our role.  Our identity can be based on defining ourselves against something else - "I don't know what I am, but I know I'm not that."  It almost becomes a process of elimination as we go through life. But once in a while, we find it.  The right word, the right paradigm, the glove that fits. And we know...

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