Speakeasy Theology

Unscripted reflections on the texts for Sunday. Lent gracefully affords us time to deny ourselves through fasting and resisting evil thoughts, but it also teaches us to befriend the cross, urging us gently (or not-so-gently) to die into Jesus’ death. We need to die into Jesus’ death because it is only by sharing in his cross that we are saved from sharing the fate of the powerful. We all exist eit...

In this reflection, primarily in dialog with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Martin Buber, I consider what it means for us to pray Israel’s Psalms—the same prayers Jesus learned from his mother and taught to his disciples. We live on borrowed breath and borrowed prayers, after all, and only Israel’s prayers, prayed by the God of Israel, can save us from the spellbinders. This is a public episode. If y...

Unscripted reflections on the texts for this week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted reflections on this week’s texts . It’s one thing to shine with the goodness of God; it’s another to know we’re shining, to become aware that others need us or want us to shine. Perhaps our deepest temptations happen right in those moments. Knowing how others see us, we can so easily lose our way, turning off the path God has laid out for us. Only the Spirit can lead us along the edge b...

Unscripted reflections on this week’s texts , exploring what it does and doesn’t mean to love your enemies and to be angry with God. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted, unthematic reflections the readings for Sunday. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday. If we take seriously Augustine’s reading of this week’s Psalm, Origen’s and Maximus’ reading of this week’s Gospel, and Bonhoeffer’s reading of this week’s Epistle, we learn what otherwise might be lost on us: that we’re called to a “sober intoxication of the Spirit,” a sobriety which is indistinguishable from giddy, stammering delig...

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Here’s Sophia’s drawing! And a link to Hill’s poem : This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

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Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday. God is faithful, no doubt. But—as you surely already know—he takes his own sweet time in proving it. Advent, therefore, is a season of learning to rejoice in the time God takes to be faithful, a season of gladdening to the fact that God’s goodness toward us is always as much about our past as it is about our present or our future, an...

Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday. Advent is a season of waiting, a season of waiting on God. But of course God is already here, already acting—continuing to do what he’s always already done. This is the mystery at the heart of our faith: it is precisely because Christ’s work is “finished” in his death that it can and must take place at the right place and at the righ...

Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday . How can we rejoice that Christ is “king” given all of the evils that have been done and all the goods that have been left undone in his name by those in authority? We can rejoice because it is Jesus who is king, no one else, and because his rule is true , fitted to our nature and accomplished not by violence but by gift . We can rej...

Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday . Many of us fear the so-called “Second Coming,” the End of All Things, dreading what it will mean for us and for those we love. Virtually all of us have been taught to think of the End as an event that lies in the near or distant future—one more thing that will happen at some point on the timeline. But in truth God is nothing but goo...

Unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday . These two widows—the widow who gives her last coins, the widow who gives her last cake—enact for us the truth of the cross, embodying the wisdom of the God of Jacob, and revealing the blessedness that belongs only to the poor in spirit. They teach us that the only way in which we can help anyone, including ourselves, including God, is by...