KEITH LONG

The experts say that anger is just a symptom or a phase of grief. Normally I’d agree and investigate my recent desire to revert to my teenage self’s propensity for speaking only in expletives every other word like Eddie Murphy’s “Raw”  comedy tour. Because normally I wouldn’t be this bereft so many days in a row following the deaths of complete strangers. But as most of you reading this know by now, there is no normal . “Normal” is gone and it is not coming back anytime soon.

Introduction I know it goes without saying but it has been a catastrophically unhappy new year, amen?    I am grateful for the many who have been reaching out and checking in with me, sending their love, sharing in my anger and sadness, encouraging my ministry and praying for my safety and warmth when marching on Friday etc. I had hoped we would have gotten a little more of a reprieve after that, with 50k showing up for our immigrant community to ”say it loud and say it clea

I have spent the better part of the last ten years deconstructing my faith and piecing it back together; theorizing, calculating, strategizing, experimenting, evaluating. Some of my findings and studies have truly inspired me to think and to live and lead differently. Some of you are aware of these aforementioned course corrections and intellectual detours because of my decision to self-publish them here  as well as my recent articulations of the importance of doubting faith

John 2:14-17   In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for you