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September 2023

September 21, 2023

Church Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be So Lonely…or So Toxic

I totally understand if you’ve moved on from Alexander Lang’s blog post “Departure: Why I...

September 14, 2023

What Is a Pastor, Really? (thoughts on Alexander Lang’s “Why I Left the Church”)

A friend shared Alexander Lang’s blog post “Departure: Why I Left the Church” with me...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

Women, Let’s Not Bench Ourselves

Climate crisis, war, loneliness and despair, all the interlocking systems of oppression that dehumanize us...

August 18, 2023

Will This Fall Be the Fall of the Patriarchy?

As the days get shorter again and kids prepare to go back to school, I...

August 11, 2023

What Does It Mean to Say “We Believe”?

There was a time in my life when I found it comforting to sing a...

August 02, 2023

Deprogramming from Patriarchy Is Not as Easy as Barbie Makes It Seem

I enjoyed the Barbie movie. I mean, anytime a woman goes on a legit hero’s...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

Christian Education: From Teaching to Co-learning

Once, at a work-related social event, I ran into someone I recognized. Let’s call him...

July 21, 2023

What If Sermons Were a Conversation?

Every now and then, I find myself in a one-sided “conversation.” Probably at least in...

July 11, 2023

I Take Sermons With a Grain of Salt

I’m not ashamed to say it. These days, I take sermons with a grain of...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

An Actually “Consistent Ethic of Life” Would Care About Women’s Lives (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 2)

Advocates of a “consistent ethic of life”—as Tish Harrison Warren put it in a recent...

June 22, 2023

Can We Be “Anti-Abortion” in Ways That Actually Affirm Life? (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 1)

I know, intellectually, that there is a lot to love about Anglican priest Tish Harrison...

June 14, 2023

It’s Not Just Hillsong

As I watched the recent docu-series The Secrets of Hillsong, I found myself thinking: It’s...

June 07, 2023

Religious Leaders: From Answer Givers to People Who Try Stuff

One of the key ways my thinking on religious leadership has changed is this: I’ve...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

Let Them Kick You Out

I’ve been thinking about the threat of being asked to leave a church or other...

May 19, 2023

What’s a Good Person, Anyway?

Sometimes I feel the urge to try to prove my “good”ness. Many times, I resist...

May 11, 2023

How Shame-Breaking Is Contagious

Maybe you’ve been in a group of people when the conversation takes a turn. Someone...

May 03, 2023

Spirituality as Shame Resilience

People often associate religion in general—and Christianity in particular—with shame, and for good reasons. Recently...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Religion That Doesn’t Shame

Last week I wrote about learning to say “no” to religious shame, as part of...

April 21, 2023

Say “No” to Religious Shame

When we talk about religious authority, we need to talk about how to resist that...

April 12, 2023

Building Our “No” Muscles

A couple years back, when I was still pretty new at my current church, my...

March 2023

March 17, 2023

It’s Okay That We’re Different

I’ve met a bunch of new-to-me people at church recently and have had the chance...

March 10, 2023

Religious Authorities Are Not God

Religious structures and systems are not God. And religious authority figures are not God. This...

March 03, 2023

Learning to “Authorize” Ourselves

As we consider non-authoritarian ways of reading the Bible—as well as non-authoritarian ways of speaking...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

What Kind of Authority Does Tradition Have?

I’ve been reflecting on how my views of faith and authority have changed over time....

February 03, 2023

Casually Authoritarian Language in Church (or, Don’t Tell Me What to Do)

I’ve begun to notice some of the casually authoritarian language people use in church services...

January 2023

January 27, 2023

Aligning Our Biases With God’s

I realize that the “love and justice” part of reading the Bible with a bias...

January 20, 2023

Historical Abuses of Scripture Give Me Pause

If we—as Christians often do—ever think we have all the right answers about the Bible,...

January 13, 2023

I’m Still Thinking About Martin Luther King Class

A little over four years ago, I took a seminary class on Dr. Martin Luther...

January 11, 2023

Translating the New Testament Changed How I Read Scripture

A pastor I like and respect once said that he found it much more valuable...

January 06, 2023

Playing Fast and Loose With Scripture: Historical Theologians

In one of my preaching classes in seminary, we were asked to write and preach...

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