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January 2021

January 10, 2021

Whose Flag Do You Carry?

The irony of all those Jesus flags in the midst of the chaos and destruction...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Hard Candy Christmas: And Other Songs You Need This Year

If your old holiday standards aren't quite cutting it this year, there are others that...

December 09, 2020

Passing By

In these days that feel like the same day, spinning itself out over and over...

December 02, 2020

Peace, Love, Apocalypse

You'll hear a lot of religious extremists these days talking about the end times- God...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

Light, Enough

I am the laziest holiday decorator in the world. Christmas is the only season for...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Racism Is The Emergency: News From Louisville

Racism is the real emergency. What if we truly addressed systemic racial injustice with the...

September 19, 2020

Sacred Dissent: The Legacy of RBG, and What Comes Next

Few people in the world have used their voice of dissent as effectively as she...

August 2020

August 15, 2020

How It’s Always Been

100 years from now/ they will sit in churches/ and worship in wide circles/wearing masks...

August 09, 2020

Church Deserts: And the Unique Opportunity of Online Community

A church desert is a place where your choices of worshipping community are limited. It's...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

The Privilege of Denial

There are some striking parallels between those who refuse to mask up, who call the...

July 12, 2020

Reclaiming the Language of Faith: Beyond Sound Bites To The Better Way of Jesus

When the church can't talk about poverty without somebody hollering "politics!" then our message has...

July 11, 2020

Economy or Empire? What We Build Next Starts With Schools

Yes, the economy truly does matter – but how we are defining that economy matters...

July 03, 2020

Wait For It: Is the Church Going to Be A Hamilton, Or A Burr?

"Hamilton" is a story that America needs to hear right now. It reminds us that...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Preaching Out Loud: Why Everyone’s Talking About This Episode of Queer Eye, And What The Church Can Learn

There are reasons everybody is talking about this episode, and not just me and my...

June 08, 2020

Truth and Transformation: Can The Church Survive Confronting Racism?

As Americans, we have a choice in nearly everything. From where we live to what...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Let It Burn

"You can't fan the flames and then condemn the fire." These were the words of...

May 23, 2020

Essential

Use the church as a pawn in political games? They would never! Well. If by 'never'...

May 10, 2020

What White Mothers Can Give To Black Mothers For Mother’s Day

I woke up this morning to cute little signs on my door, then followed a...

May 03, 2020

The Gospel Of Reading What We’ve Already Read Before

Yesterday, on what should have been Derby Day, the temp climbed above 80 degrees. Rather...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

If We Weren’t Afraid: What Is The Post-Pandemic Church Going To Be?

We've all got a story we've told too many times, right? Mine is this: Once,...

April 25, 2020

Without Casseroles and Crowded Churches: 10 Ways To Support The Grieving While Social Distancing

Guest Post: Rev. Selena Wright “Grief must be witnessed.*” One of the greatest gifts of...

April 14, 2020

Guts, Grit, and Empathy: Why We Need Women Leaders Right Now

Women make up 50.8% of the American population; but only 23% of the House and...

April 11, 2020

Let The Church Die: An Easter Manifesto

Here it is, Saturday. And here we sit, waiting to see if he's going to...

April 10, 2020

Into Your Hands

“Into your hands,” he says. “Into your hands I commit. Into your hands, I lay...

April 04, 2020

Quarantine Homeschooling? Here’s The One Thing Kids Need To Learn Right Now

The other day, my 9-year-old scientist was telling me all the ways this quarantine situation...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

This Pandemic Is A Test: But Maybe Not How You Think

If you'd told me a month ago that a pastor in America would be arrested...

March 26, 2020

Pandemic: We Are One Body

Depending upon where you live, your life may or may not have been altered dramatically...

March 13, 2020

Five Ways To Be The Church When Church Is Canceled

There are many unknowns here. There is unprecedented territory ahead, and nobody can say how...

March 10, 2020

Viral Fear Reveals The Worst Of Us: COVID-19 And Fear Of Scarcity

Like many of you, I'm troubled by many things right now. I'm not panicking-- I...

March 07, 2020

Do We Need A New Word For “Privilege?”

I'm getting weird deja vu as I start this post. Sometimes things I write sound...

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