Do Not Be Afraid
Lee Davis • December 22, 2025
Do Not Be Afraid
What happens when a community stays long enough for someone to find the name? A reflection on Jeremiah, vocation, and what the church is actually for.
What do we do with the violent God of the Old Testament? If you've read the Old Testament with any seriousness, you've run into this.
Does God have a gender? The question makes some people uncomfortable, which is usually a sign it's worth asking.
Both. Together. — The church prays to proclaim truth with boldness and minister justice with compassion. On Juneteenth weekend, that prayer has weight.
can you be angry at God? Yes. The tradition provides a whole grammar for it. The unprocessed cry to God is one of the oldest forms of prayer we have.
They showed up. They grieved. They did everything right. So why did Jesus put them outside? A reflection on certainty, experience, and leaving room.
Where is God when it's awful? Closer than the silence makes it seem, and more hidden than we'd like. The cross says God does not watch from outside.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith. It's what faith looks like in a human body. It's the gap between what we reach for and what we can fully hold...
a lot of people sitting in pews on Sunday morning are carrying doubt they've never said out loud, because they're not sure the church can handle it.
We have spent a long time domesticating the Holy Spirit reducing it to a warm feeling. But the Spirit in John 20 is something else, something that doesn'twait.