The Bronx Household of Faith Blog
The Good Life
I sat next to a 16-year-old boy wearing a baggy T-Shirt that said “BLESSED” in gaudy lettering. The image on the shirt gave the sense: two hands pressed together in prayer, between them a long-stemmed rose and a stack of hundred-dollar bills. Pleasure and...
Shoutout
Two Sundays ago, the message at BHOF was directed specifically toward young people: “Remember your creator in the days of your youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1). The preacher in Ecclesiastes doesn’t call God “creator” anywhere else in the book. One reason, I argued, that the...
3 Things I Hate About COVID Church (or Why Every Sunday Is Like Christmas)
1. We have to sit in household clusters separated by at least 6 feet. This fulfills our state’s COVID-safety requirements. But it also highlights one reason we shouldn’t normally sit so far from each other at church: We are family members, not audience members. If...
Returning to the Source
You’re one twitch of the finger and a screen-blip away from conjuring up scores of “results” on how Christians should think about everything from Coronavirus to George Floyd’s death and the protests following in its wake. I have found it increasingly difficult to...
Sermon Livestreams
Your Salvation Is Just a Baby!
The Christmas story we read in the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel is full of surprises—angels showing up out of the blue and startling people who we’re surprised are even in the story (like the ruffian shepherds and lowly Mary—and God himself as a...