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Author Archives: Meisaan Chan
The parable of the pond
There once was a pond that lay in the middle of a forest. It was a large pond, one that had curves and inlets and hiding places. This pond had areas of fresh, flowing water but also areas where the … Continue reading
Outside of church
How freely the Spirit roams outside of church, for she is not reined in by stone walls or theological walls or even walls of thought, but settles where she wishes granting homes for the homeless and abiding with the meek; … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged comforter, compassion, Holy Spirit, reform, spirit
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Coming to peace with dysfunction in the church
For some things: Let it do what it does be healed: You follow me For other things: Fight it out, bear your teeth speak my words, the Lord of justice be healed: You follow me For yet other things: shake … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged dysfunction, following, reform
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Blessed are the followers
who know that church is not a social club or a place to preen and be honored, but that it is a place of discomfort, to die and die and die, and then these people do © Meisaan Chan
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged church, death, discomfort, resurrection, social club
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Year 34
It was supposed to have been a great year. More teaching, more dancing, more toasting, more sunsets, more excursions on the sea – he had been planning for it all. But then things took a bad turn and the plan … Continue reading
Jesus’ fury – or – Proof of Biblical censorship
Jesus gets mad once – only once! – as if anger is a flaw on the surface of the great, placid ocean but if you were to ask a fisherman if a storm rages over the sea only once in … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anger, Bible, censorship, fisherman, Jesus, rage
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Jesus is not a superhero
Jesus is not a superhero come to save us from the villain; this is not Gotham City and we are not its denizens; This sentimentality clouds our vision and renders us hostage to sloppiness when really, the way is about precision: … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged Jesus, sentimentalism, superhero
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Because Jesus always said “Follow me,” not “Worship me”
If the music died and churches crumbled and words of praise faded away and there was no fawning audience or stage or altar or packed parking lot, there would still be those who would pick up their walking sticks and … Continue reading
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I do not like the name of Jesus
I. I do not like the name of Jesus the banner of closed-hearted fear-filled, gay-bashing, homogenizing, culture-killing small-minded, Koran-burning earth-raping, white privileged politicianed, women-hating superficial, two-faced, cold-stoned materialistic, chauvinistic power-hungry, blind-eyed, out-of-sync, double-standard who-has-the-holiest-asshole – II. Jesus says: please don’t judge me … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, Spiritual poetry
Tagged anger, factions, idolotry, Jesus, rage, rightness
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Curving toward the center 