Category Archives: Christianity

A note to the observer

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

Humans bring beauty and mess with them wherever they go so if you happen to see a human, expect it: beauty and mess beauty and mess © Meisaan Chan

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Church angel

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I leave the pew and get in line for that little wafer that I don’t understand in a community I don’t frequent: I am a stranger in this semi-foreign land and in the other line of people a little girl … Continue reading →

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The parable of the pond

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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Outside of church

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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Coming to peace with dysfunction in the church

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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Credo

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I believe in jesus who prioritized wholeness and healing of skin and mind and womb and political institutions and the institution of the tabernacle; I believe in the man who came to preach the way of death as the way … Continue reading →

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Year 34

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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Jesus’ fury – or – Proof of Biblical censorship

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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Jesus is not a superhero

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

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 →

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