What are the Creeds? How do I learn to trust again?
What are the Creeds? How do I learn to trust again?

What are the Creeds? How do I learn to trust again?
What is the essential task as a follower of Jesus? The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
I joined a club I never wanted to join. What do I do now?
Do dogs go to heaven?
a story about inequality becomes a story about resurrection
Jesus was not real keen on the Biological Family.
The Knight of Faith Must Sometimes Wear the Clown Suit
Luke’s Lord’s Prayer is stripped down, light, and ready for battle.
Joan of Arc: Her Early Life With Saints and Angels
How Should Artists Memorialize the Trump Presidency? Elisabet Ney and General Johnston
Post traumatic God Episode 13: I Treat the Beat Like a Reverend
God does not exist. He is being itself beyond essence and existence—Paul Tillich
The one thing people always say when they find out I’m divorced, circumcision, nazism, hippies at the folk fest, Roman soldiers’ sacrament, and hula hoops
Tillich’s concept of the Courage to Be can help us as we contemplate the abyss of non-being. We also discuss my eating disorder, process thought, and Barth vs. Tillich on atonement.
The wound is where the light enters you- Rumi
Tillich and C. S. Lewis sexual relationships are examined as a sign of post-traumatic chaos
As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.—Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried
Post-Traumatic God Episode 6: The Reformers and the Shattering Effects of War
Homicide in war is not reckoned by our fathers as homicide...Perhaps, however, it is well to counsel that those whose hands are not clean only abstain from communion for three years. —St. Basil the Great
Then Pilate wondered if he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. Mark 15:44
“Hell rages around us. It’s unimaginable” Paul Tillich in WWI
The courage to be is found in the god who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt and fear — Paul Tillich. Find Matt Williams on iTunes music or www.retiredarmychaplain.com
“Love Your Enemies” a sermon preached at Christ Church Cedar Park, TX. Luke 6:27 is the text.
I can’t remember being young in my life—Audie Murphy
A wonderful morning preaching and listening at St. Paul’s #Pflugerville with the Rev. Janne Osborne!
My last sermon at St. Mark’s, Austin. “Inchworms and Grasshoppers”
“All Will Be Thrown Down” a Sermon preached at St. Mark’s Austin
A Brute That Cannot Sing: a Sermon for Remembrance Day Evensong
“Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching on All Saints Day”