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Easter and Creation Care for a Wounded Planet

[NOTE: This is an adult forum presentation I made for a Lutheran church in the Twin Cities. It’s a pretty long post. If you prefer, you can…

Apr 9, 2024

Easter and Creation Care for a Wounded Planet

Apr 9, 2024

For Crying Out Loud

David R. Weiss — July 15, 2023

Jul 15, 2023

Jul 15, 2023

Family Secrets — More than a Matter of Degree

Family Secrets — More than a Matter of Degree David R. Weiss — July 8, 2023

Jul 8, 2023

Family Secrets — More than a Matter of Degree

Jul 8, 2023

Giving Up on Church for my Children

Perhaps every decision has multiple forces, tiny and large, stretched out behind it. This one surely does. But the integrating force, the…

Mar 10, 2023

Giving Up on Church for my Children

Mar 10, 2023

Lamar Johnson: Held for Naught

“THEREFORE, for the reasons stated about, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion of the Circuit Attorney of the 22nd Judicial Court filed…

Feb 27, 2023

Lamar Johnson: Held for Naught

Feb 27, 2023

Abolition! — Because Words Matter

Abolition! — Because Words Matter

Feb 15, 2023

Abolition! — Because Words Matter

Feb 15, 2023

Two Things True

Two things — opposite as it were — can be true at once.

Jul 25, 2022

Two Things True

Jul 25, 2022

We are All Ukraine

Feb 24, 2022

We are All Ukraine

Feb 24, 2022

Hearts: Hardened … and Softened

I occasionally write for The Word in Season, a daily devotional published by Augsburg Fortress. A set of my devotions, spanning June 17–30…

Jun 22, 2021

Hearts: Hardened … and Softened

Jun 22, 2021

When the Center Slides Sideways

NOTE: This post, which discusses my “complicated relationship” with myself (depression), isn’t about seeking pity, much less attention. I…

Jun 18, 2021

When the Center Slides Sideways

Jun 18, 2021

Jeff Bezos and the Overview Effect

God loves Jeff Bezos. And: Jeff Bezos’ life choices constitutes a remarkable series of choosing evil over good again and again and again…

Jun 18, 2021

Jeff Bezos and the Overview Effect

Jun 18, 2021

Anamnesis and Liturgical Rage

“Do this to remember me.” That’s what Jesus said at the Last Supper on the night before his death. Anamnesis is the Greek word here: “in…

Apr 16, 2021

Anamnesis and Liturgical Rage

Apr 16, 2021

Beginnings: On Lamar, Letter-Writing, and the Need to Lie to Speak the Truth

I barely know Lamar, but after what had just happened I knew it was time to write him a letter. I just didn’t realize how … weird … it…

Mar 13, 2021

Beginnings: On Lamar, Letter-Writing, and the Need to Lie to Speak the Truth

Mar 13, 2021

My Intervention with Jesus

February 15, 2021 — David R. Weiss

Feb 17, 2021

My Intervention with Jesus

Feb 17, 2021

What Do We Even Bother to Hope?

February 13, 2021 — David R. Weiss

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

Keeping Faith While Our World Fractures

January 12, 2021 — David R. Weiss

Jan 12, 2021

Keeping Faith While Our World Fractures

Jan 12, 2021

Crying “Uncle”

This one is hard. Hard to write. Hard to read. On the morning of my Christmas birthday breakfast I wrote on Facebook, “I’m thinking 61 is…

Dec 30, 2020

Crying “Uncle”

Dec 30, 2020

Christmas Pageant Pandemonium

Untangling — and Untaming Christmas

Dec 5, 2020

Christmas Pageant Pandemonium

Dec 5, 2020

Better World? My Ass!

Is it mere coincidence that World Toilet Day coincides with “Give to the Max Day” today here in Minnesota? I think not — as least not as…

Nov 20, 2020

Nov 20, 2020

Water Carriers — Every One of Us

We were barely noticed as we made our way along Summit Avenue. Three friends, masked and walking with a hardly remarkable purple aluminum…

Sep 2, 2020

Water Carriers — Every One of Us

Sep 2, 2020

David Weiss

David Weiss

David Weiss is a theologian-writer, doing “public theology” around current events, climate crisis, sexuality, justice, diversity, and peace. www.davidrweiss.com

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