Messy Jesus Business Blog
Contemplating the messiness of Christian life
The Messy Jesus Business Blog is an ecumenical Christian gathering of musings about what it means to live the Gospel today. A variety of contributors offer prayer, poetry, book reviews, creative nonfiction and prose about what it means to live a life of faith in our complex, modern times.
Sent by ash
we join Love in the desert,
disoriented, dizzy. we thirst
as we wander rending
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Manna in this Desert Time
I sit at my desk, gazing out the sliding glass doors as snow falls in large, deliberate flakes — like manna falling from heaven, I…
Prayer in a Time of Chaos
I can’t anymore. Sometimes urgently, sometimes softly but persistently, several times a day these words echo in my brain. They seem like an interruption and…
The power of love in the face of evil
Since the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents on the streets of Minneapolis, I have found myself in some grim conversations…
Scapegoating Eve
I’ve been thinking about misogyny and the church even more than usual. A week ago, an ICE agent shot and murdered a woman named Renee…
‘Save the ArQ’ in Jerusalem is a story of nonviolent resistance
In the walled-in Old City of Jerusalem, in the Armenian Quarter, sits a large pile of rubble with an Armenian flag planted at the top…
Christmas and the work of women
Even today in households where division of labor is not definitively gendered, women do the work of Christmas: To stretch the dollar to make a…
When You Don’t Want to Look Back (and the Examen that meets you there)
I wake up at 4:20 a.m. Unable to get back to sleep, I brush my teeth, make a cup of coffee, and curl up in…
2 Prayers for this season
Emmanuel,The choirs sing peace on earth while the festive crowds feast and dump waste into bins. Meanwhile migrants are offeredthe opposite of welcome, The planet needs healing, Violence and conflict…
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