Under A Mutant Sun

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Growing up, I dreamed of being powerful — not the political power, or even power over others, but powerful in my own right. Of course Superman’s power was alluring, but what I needed was healing. Hello, Fellow Humans For those of you madly looking for a…

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The Games We Play

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Reflecting on human nature is kind of my thing, and it always has been. This is part of what drew me to study the Bible — it’s a massive anthology of humanity at its best and hot-messiest. It’s also what made me mildly obsessed with the Enlightenment. …

ByRev. Eric WolfJuly 18, 20250Comments

Majestic statue of Alexander the Great on horseback, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Calling & Character

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. Retired theologian and UMC bishop, William Willomon, wrote a book by this title that I read around the time I went to seminary. I can’t remember much of it after all these years other than this: we must answer our calling with the entirety of self. …

ByRev. Eric WolfJuly 11, 20250Comments

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Peace, Not Quiet.

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. One reason my faith has become so politically outspoken owes to the attention the hardline conservatives get from the media, which leads people to believe that this is the most active form of Christianity in the nation. It’s popularity isn’t because this movement represents Jesus as much as…

ByRev. Eric WolfJune 27, 20250Comments

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For All the Saints & Sinners

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. [This is adapted from a larger article by the same name, which you can find here.] A Voice from Beyond I still hear his voice in my head when I think of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Clem. It was deep, rich, and welcoming. Clem graduated from Lutheran…

ByRev. Eric WolfJune 20, 20250Comments

Iconic Freddie Mercury statue on Lake Geneva in Montreux, captured in a serene and foggy morning.

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I Want to Break Free

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. What a Drag In a moment of tension at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1985, Freddie Mercury wrote the anthemic I Want to Break Free about his determination to live as his own complicated self. Nah, I’m kidding. That’s what I thought too,…

ByRev. Eric WolfJune 13, 20250Comments

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You Can Do Hard Things

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. The past year has been brutal. From the loss of my father to professional reinvention, the joys and perils of parenting, and all of it going on while it feels like the world is on fire and everything is fire, just brutal. This past year has been…

ByRev. Eric WolfJune 6, 20250Comments

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Timelessly Tacky

Exploring the intersection of sacred and secular. I worked for my parents’ electrical service company in college. That knowledge has proved most valuable over the years, but not always how I expected. My brother’s friend from high school, Brian, also worked for my parents, in the office as tech support and as a general…

ByRev. Eric WolfMay 22, 20250Comments

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Seeking Shelter: Fully Known

Seeking Shelter is a column that invites deeper thoughts about the meaning of it all by exploring the nexus of life and faith. In honor of a habemusing a papam, I want to take us back — back to an iconic moment in 1999, when New Jersey’s Cardinal Glick introduced the Catholicism WOW! campaign.…

ByRev. Eric WolfMay 16, 20250Comments

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