Morgan Guyton

My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome: offensively delightful; utterly gorgeous when he’s angry; a carpenter’s hands with fingers soft enough to open eyes that were blind from birth; every movement of his muscles a dance in which he retunes the wavelengths of the energy around him so when he tells a mountain to throw itself into the sea, it obeys him casually as though the universe were his poetry; the way his eyes shift so quickly from fierce to...

By Morgan Guyton, Contributor Director, NOLA Wesley Foundation What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “weightier matters of the law”? It sounds like they would be the parts of the Bible that are hard for a modern world to accept.

Lent never stopped because no one was raised from the dead and we didn’t make a thousand visitors’ bags, feeling hopeful that this Easter’s crowd would finally stick around, because there was no hallelujah as we looked into our phones to see fellow refugees in their pajamas every Sunday, not knowing whether we will ever pass the peace of Christ again.