Oswald Chambers wrote something that I always keep before me: “Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God… There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but he was never inconsistent with his Father… It is easier…

“You are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human project is showing signs of exile and humbly and boldy to act symbolically in ways that declare that the powers have been defeated, that the kingdom has come in Jesus the Jewish Messiah, that the new way of…

Years ago at the Clinical Pastoral Education course that I took, another student who was extremely frustrated with me yelled out at me in front of the whole class, “David, you are an enigma!” At the time, I wasn’t sure how to take it. He intended it as an expression…