| Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield

Pride Flag

It Could Mean Everything

I didn't know a lot of things when I was 10 or 12 or 20. I didn’t know what I wanted to do for a living. I didn’t know if I wanted to have kids or not. I didn’t know about some major life changes. But I did know what gender I was.

The Flowered Cross

The Whole Reason

We are alive. We are loved and worthy of love. God is not done with us yet. That is the whole reason that we are here.

Cross Parament by cmarlinwarfield

Palms and Crosses

I am a normal person; one way or another, there is blood on my hands. And we have worked so hard to make that okay.

James Tissot [Public Domain], "Christ before Pilate" via Wikimedia Commons

Two Kings

If we are about anything, we are about standing up, unarmed and unarmored, in front of all of the powers of the world-as-it-is, for the Christ who we meet in every pleading face and outstretched hand.

World Imaging [Public Domain], "Bronze Coin of Pontius Pilate Jerusalem Mint 26 36 AD" via Wikimedia Commons

Truth and Power

The truth can feel frightening. It can challenge our sense of our very selves and demand that we change to become the people who we thought we were; the people who God is calling us to be.

Communion by cmarlinwarfield

Speak

I don’t have the energy for every conversation. And I have to pick my battles. And this is a lovely hill, but I’m not going to die on it.

Nasjonalbiblioteket , "Scenebilde fra Ukjent Skuespill" via Flickr Commons

Rules and Open Windows

Being a pastor or a teacher or a financial advisor is a little bit about fitting in. Being an anything is a little bit about doing the stuff and a little bit about playing the part.

Unknown [Public Domain], "Resurrection of Lazarus" via Wikimedia Commons

Graves

Lent is about a lot of things. It's a little but about remembering that we were dead, and that Christ pulled us out of the grave. And it's a little bit about remembering that we have shovels.

Georges Seurat [Public Domain], "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" via Wikimedia Commons

What Am I Supposed to Do With That?

Sin is real. We live among broken systems that aren’t quite anyone’s fault. And that lead to broken lives for which no one will quite claim responsibility. And some of those broken lives are ours.

Dave Mann [Public Domain], "Emmett Till's Funeral - Mourners" via Wikimedia Commons

Dangerous Stories

This cannot be the Messiah! This is Jesus, the son of Jospeh, from Nazareth, in Galilee. And messiahs do not come from Galilee; messiahs are made in Bethlehem. Not even prophets come from Galilee!

Rev. Christopher Marlin-Warfield

Tag: John (Gospel)