Sometimes church is dumb. God isn’t.

Here’s what I said as part of a funeral service the other day.

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Your mom was, as you said, spiritual. She let me pray for her at the hospital.

But I’m aware that none of us go to the church building where some of us first met.

And we’ve got questions about people who say they are representing God but then we think, “Apparently, God’s got a pretty incompetent HR department.”

One day, Jesus and his disciples were in a boat. Jesus was, understandably, exhausted. He fell asleep ...