Tim Boerger

It’s been a while since I’ve visited, but it’s pretty great in real life, too.

The rest arrive, all those we haven’t seen
in far too long—Great Grandma, Uncle Jack—
until each place is filled that once had been
a void, until unseen the house is packed.
And then the Host arises—eyes on him—
pronounces grace, and with himself he feeds them.

3/3

The guests who’ve come—combustive mix: the bad
in-law and aunt who gets inebriated,
the BLM kid next to MAGA dad—
must reckon, in this moment, they’re related.

2/3

Thanksgiving

By T. M. Boerger

The table’s set—white-cloth bedecked; the food
prepared, the good wine poured; bright candle glow
reflects from shining brass and polished wood,
refracts in colored glass like gemstone bow.

1/3

It was really great: some red wine vinegar gets stirred in at the end for some tang, and you garnish with Kalamata olives and feta for some briny goodness!

We’re having this tonight, and it struck me as something that was up your alley.

Ginkgo Day

The ginkgo waves its summer hands
As it did once in times of yore
Beneath the gliding pterosaur
Like thousand fluttering fans

Till some archangelic command
Demands the yellowed leaves to stop
And as one man they downward drop
To gild the autumn land

…but _then_ discounting…

Maybe I’m not reading her fairly, but it feels like she’s (appropriately) warning against turning the complex, real-life Bonhoeffer into a certain kind of heroic caricature, but his discounting his actual work because it doesn’t live up to that same standard of simplistic heroism.

Flame Raps the Sacraments - Christianity Today Now that he’s Lutheran, the rapper’s music has changed along with his theology.

I was able to interview my friend, FLAME, about his transition from Reformed Baptist to Lutheran. He was a part of the YRR movement, and Acts 29, and toured within that world, and when his theology changed, things went silent. Read about it here:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/flam...

But what a comfort to know that the decision of which you speak rests in Hands infinitely more trustworthy and merciful than mine.

I think that the damnation passages and the apokatastasis passages represent the eschaton viewed through the respective lenses of law and gospel (or maybe, better yet, are law and gospel proclaimed in an eschatological mode)—which means an insoluble tension remains until Christ comes again.