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I Need To Write Words: a Lenten reflection
A programming note: My blogging schedule is going to be different next week given that it will be Holy Week. Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday will be given over to reflections about each of their days. Tuesday and Wednesday will be days of poetry. I will then go offline from three p.m. on Continue reading
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We Ought Not to Try and be More Religious than God Himself
I am sure we ought to love God in our lives and in all the blessings he sends us. We should trust him in our lives, so that when our time comes, but not before, we may go to him in love and trust and joy. But, speaking frankly, to long for the transcendent when Continue reading
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A Prayer for the City
Heavenly Father, in your Word you have given us a vision of that holy City to which the nations of the world bring their glory: Behold and visit, we pray, the cities of the earth. Renew the ties of mutual regard which form our civic life. Send us honest and able leaders. Enable us to Continue reading
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Bribing the Poor to Leave me Alone: a meditation
She showed up again last night. Tears of shame overflowing their banks. Asking for money just one more time, I promise! And I told her that there was no shame. That we loved her. That we would help her. Like always. You see, she had divorced him years ago. Because he made her feel this Continue reading
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There Was Poetry In You Last Night
There was poetry in you last night with your salty tears on my tongue and your “I don’t know what’s wrong with me” piled onto the threshold of love and your nurse by night but Wedding Planner by day and fellow storyteller in a world of broken tales. There was poetry in the way your Continue reading
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Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and the Bible: reading scripture as mythology part 7
Welcome to the seventh, and final, post I am doing for the mythology and the bible series. You can view the other posts here. Last week I recapped where we had been, discussed the myths of the Beginning and the End held by a segment of contemporary Christians, and told you that this week I Continue reading
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Forsaking God for the World: a Lenten reflection
Today, I don’t have many words with which to talk about Lent. However, Peter Rollins has been on my mind a lot lately, and so I commend you this parable found in his book Insurrection. I think it nicely demonstrates the move we are all called to make as we die to ourselves for the Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: community garden, honeymoon, and spring break
Welcome to Thankful Tuesday! I am incredibly thankful for this past weekend. I spent Friday doing absolutely nothing with my favorite person in the world! I spent Saturday afternoon cooking dinner and I spent Saturday night with Drew. We smoked fine cigars and drank fine wine. It was wonderful. On Sunday, we started our community Continue reading
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The Spiritual Meaning of Lent
It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord. For by your gracious gift each year your faithful await the sacred paschal feasts with the joy of minds made pure, so that, more eagerly intent Continue reading
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Keep Awake: a meditation
There are shadows and hints of shadows. But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be, then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. The gnawed and twisted remnants of their certainty litter the floor. They once believed him. For in those days there will be suffering, such Continue reading
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Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, and the Bible: reading scripture as mythology part 6
Welcome to the sixth post in the series that I am doing about mythology and the bible. A reminder: I am not attempting to read the stories of the bible in their theological, historical, scientific, or literary contexts. I am interested in the way they function for particular audiences, making this a rhetorical project. Let’s Continue reading
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Repentance: a Lenten reflection
It’s still Lent. And I’m starting to get tired of it. I’ve mourned the loss of God. I’ve accused God. I’ve felt solidarity with the suffering of others. I’ve wanted to stop believing. I’ve served others. I’ve created art and worshipped. I’ve been buoyed by Lauds and Compline. But that’s not why I’m getting tired Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: March Fifth
Welcome to Thankful Tuesday! I am tremendously thankful that I woke up this morning feeling like I had slept twelve hours instead of the six that I actually slept. I am thankful for my master’s program. I just finished writing an abstract generated from the ideas I’ve been discussing in the Mythology and the Bible Continue reading
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Do You Believe in God?
However, from a Christological perspective, the question itself, which everyone seems to take for granted, now comes to signify something else entirely. Instead of the words, Do you believe in God? Meaning Do you believe there is empirical data to assent to the existence of an extra-linguistic Supreme Being governing the universe?, it now refers Continue reading
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A Prayer for Peace
Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for Continue reading
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My Witness Will be Life and Breath: a meditation
Against the darkness that now rises in the East there can be no victory. –Denethor, Steward of Gondor Ok. I suppose that quote is a bit dramatic, but it’s a sentiment I sometimes feel. I sometimes feel like there is a vast darkness that cannot be overcome even as it is my responsibility to overcome Continue reading
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What I’m Into: February Edition
“Oh God,” you’re probably thinking to your self, “this is his second blog post of the day. What has driven him to this madness?” Well, I’ve decided to join Leigh Kramer, and some others, in talking about what I was into in February. I think it’s fun—sort of reminds me of the early days of Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 