Category: fathers
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Father
The second word of the Lord’s prayer is Father. Oh what a word! It is wrought with human potential for beauty and love and tenderness and for some it is wrought with fear, neglect, absence. But ultimately the noun is most prone to our projection. I will dive in further in a moment, but I…
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Sons & Fathers and Wrestling With God: Audio Tapes (Trauma Part I)
There is a passage in the Bible that is at the crux of creation, redemption, salvation, and monotheism and the theme of it is replayed throughout Scripture: fathers giving their son’s over to death. No not God the Father giving over Jesus, no not God giving Adam and Eve over to death when a simple…