Feb 7, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The transfiguration is a revelation of the defeat of death. Elementary observations of that moment that make this plain are often overlooked or unspoken. Here are Moses and Elijah very much alive and embodied. Second, they are speaking with Jesus. Human speech...
Jan 27, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
The soldiers in dress blues didn’t make it to the door. My mother’s teenaged sister saw them approaching through the curtains. “Betty, I think those soldiers are coming here.” Mom broke apart before “here” and she never got put back together again. There was no...
Jan 20, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
When we read the Bible with the church we learn that not every line of Scripture has equal weight in answering the question, “Who is God and what is God like?” We would have a very odd schizophrenic God if we took every line in the Bible as a literal revelation of the...
Jan 4, 2018 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
When the divine community we call God created the visible (and invisible) universe they spoke words like "let there be light" and things that were not in one moment began to exist in the next. Stars. Planets. Oceans. Mountains. Trees. Animals. Flower All...
Nov 6, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
Statement by Sherri and Frank Pomeroy: Broadcast or social media are not usually helpful in the aftermath of great tragedy. But anyone who can should see the press conference from earlier this afternoon with Pastor Frank and Sherri Pomeroy. Beyond the unspeakable...
Nov 3, 2017 | Author - Kenneth Tanner
That moment when you realize that Jesus' incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension are not just about saving YOUR everlasting soul but about saving the one human nature shared by all who bear flesh, and about renewing the whole of the good Creation....
