We are All Ukraine

I occasionally write for The Word in Season, a daily devotional published by Augsburg Fortress. A set of my devotions, spanning June 17–30, are in the current quarterly issue. Today’s (6/22/21) is based on Exodus 9:13–35 (I don’t pick the texts; they’re assigned to me). In the passage Moses, speaking…

NOTE: This post, which discusses my “complicated relationship” with myself (depression), isn’t about seeking pity, much less attention. I rarely go “here” in my public writing. Of course, there’s shame, embarrassment, and self-consciousness at play. …

God loves Jeff Bezos. And: Jeff Bezos’ life choices constitutes a remarkable series of choosing evil over good again and again and again. And again. These things can both be true. Indeed, they are. Few persons alive on the planet today, politicians or magnates, have so hoarded power and wealth…

“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 remembrance.” It’s grueling and uncomfortable, tense and unpredictable, right now outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department. …

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 would feel to need to lie in order to get my letter to him. This is a story that has multiple…

February 15, 2021 — David R. Weiss Me and Jesus go way back. I wasn’t just born into a Christian family; I was born on Jesus’ birthday — named “David” after the city of his birth. So, I sorta feel like we’re … family. Which is why I was more…

February 13, 2021 — David R. Weiss I admit: I feel kicked in the gut. But the writing was on the wall from the very beginning. Despite Trump willfully repeating lies about the election, both before and after Election Day, and using the reach of his lies and the volume…

January 12, 2021 — David R. Weiss Days of reckoning are upon us. The FBI reports that it is aware of plans for armed protests at all fifty state capitols — and again at the U.S. Capitol — between January 16 and January 20. Is this madness or what? It’s…