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July 2023

July 13, 2023

Heaven Is Within Us: Wrestling With Doubt on the Death of a Loved One

Wrestling With Doubt My grandmother died on Valentine’s Day. At the time, I tried to...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

Dear Churches, Please Keep Your Rainbow Flags Flying

Dear Churches, Please keep your rainbow flags flying. As June ends, many progressive churches are...

June 27, 2023

Following the Call of the Spirit: Resurrecting Faith In Ourselves

To all who have set aside their dreams due to anxiety, who suffer from failure...

February 2023

February 02, 2023

Subversive Blessings: The Beatitudes As Guidance For Unconditional Love

Subversive Blessings The Sermon on the Mount, as I wrote in my last post, is...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

The Subversive Sermon on the Mount: A Blueprint for Beloved Community

Beloved And Misunderstood The Sermon on the Mount is the cornerstone of Jesus’ teaching, embodied...

December 2022

December 24, 2022

Saying Yes to the Spirit: A Meditation on Delivering Love Into the World

I. As Christmas draws near, I’m thinking About a courageous, vulnerable girl on the brink...

December 02, 2022

Advent Hope: Awakening to the Divine in a World of Violence

“Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an...

November 2022

November 19, 2022

Four Things That Will Happen When Love Reigns Supreme: A Christ the King Meditation

How Can Love Reign Supreme in a War-Torn World? Christ the King Sunday is approaching....

November 11, 2022

A Prayer for Turning Veteran’s Day Back Into Armistice Day

Respecting Soldiers; Rejecting War It is Veteran’s Day. As a pacifist, this is one of...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Halloween Is About Meeting Fear With Love

It’s The Most Spooktacular Time of the Year A mischievous spirit swirls through the crisp...

October 25, 2022

The 8 Points of Progressive Christianity Have Changed. Here’s What They Are Now.

What Is Progressive Christianity? By definition, progressive Christianity is always evolving and therefore impossible to...

October 08, 2022

The Authority of Love: Following Jesus in a Post-Pandemic World

“Your faith has made you well.” (Luke 17:19) What would we do if we were...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

The Faith That Uproots Injustice Is Already Within Us

“If you had faith the size of this mustard seed, you could say to this...

July 2022

July 23, 2022

What I Wish Jesus Had Said: Mary, Martha, and What Love Requires In The Moment

Now, as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named...

July 16, 2022

The Good Samaritan, Eid Al-Adha, and Loving Our Interfaith Neighbor

“Who Is My Neighbor?” This year, the lectionary reading of the Good Samaritan coincided almost...

July 06, 2022

Independence Day as Repentance Day: From Empire to Beloved Community (Luke 10)

Repentance Day On the eve of “Independence Day” for a nation born in blood and...

July 02, 2022

Love Cannot Rest: A Queer-Affirming Reading of Luke 9:51-62

“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man...

June 2022

June 25, 2022

Living Without Our Demons

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” for many demons had...

June 17, 2022

God Is A Dance of Love: Three Reflections on the Trinity

Misunderstanding Trinity: The Existential Dread God is a Dance of Love, sweeping us into the...

June 11, 2022

Pride and Pentecost

The Queerest Holiday Pentecost is the queerest holiday of the liturgical year, and the Church...

June 06, 2022

The Urgency of Faithful Peacemaking: Five Guiding Principles

The Urgency of Now The world desperately needs faithful peacemakers. As I begin this blog,...