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October 2015

October 27, 2015

Bumps in the Night: Why We Love to Turn Up the Terror

I think I was about 15 the first time I read Pet Sematary. I was...

October 26, 2015

7 Ways to Prepare Your Kids for Dating…Without Using a Shotgun

It’s the oldest joke in our cultural lexicon: the father, casually cleaning his shotgun on...

October 20, 2015

20 Before 40: A Birthday Wish List

Your birthday is not the best day to start a diet. So I’m not. However,...

October 07, 2015

Because The World is Hungry

This was Sunday's sermon for World Communion Sunday. As always, the table was filled with...

October 01, 2015

Ordinary Day

Nobody came into my place of work today and shot me. No enraged white man...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

It is Finished: The Life and Death of Kelly Gissendaner

It's done. Sort of. The story of a killer. It was one-part true crime, and...

September 29, 2015

EXPECTO PATRONUM! And Other Spells That Don’t Ensure Your Internet Safety

Listen. Most any 'change in privacy' notice you see on Facebook is a scam. Social...

September 23, 2015

Get it Together, America–We’ve Got Company

Maybe this week in U.S. news is no more embarrassing than any other. But I...

September 22, 2015

Talking to Strangers: Scene in a Bar

I was drinking a beer. That was her first clue that I wasn’t a real...

September 14, 2015

Hope, Healing, and Multiple Drafts: A Conversation with Author Reba Riley

I recently posted a review of the new book “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome.” Since then, I’ve...

September 09, 2015

That One Time When Kim Davis Stopped Being Hilarious

Yesterday, I did something I’ve never done before—I took down a previously published blog post....

September 03, 2015

Those Tiny Shoes

Those tiny shoes. I am heavy-hearted and haunted today, as are many of us, by...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Clean Hands, Full Hearts (Can’t Lose): A Sermon About Purity and Tradition

7Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered...

August 26, 2015

When Violence is Not News

The fresh horror out of Virginia this morning: a news anchor and camera man went...

August 21, 2015

Pointing Fingers and Dancing on Ashes: Josh Duggar, Again

The Josh Duggar stuff. First-- we should stop acting surprised. We already knew he was...

August 20, 2015

The Naked Truth About Dress Codes

Women's bodies sure are controversial these days. And not just in the political/ideological sense regarding reproductive rights...

August 19, 2015

Healing and Hilarity in “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome”

If David Sedaris and Anne Lamott had a baby together... it would be this book....

August 12, 2015

All the Weird, Wonderful World: A Back-to-School Prayer

As I mentioned last year, I am usually not the parent crying into my latte...

August 06, 2015

Get Well Soon! And Other Perky Things Not to Say to a Dying Person

I was on my way out the door to visit a church member in hospice care....

August 05, 2015

$h*! Jesus Says: 7 Reasons I’m (Still) a Christian

This one's for the Skeptics, the Cynics, the Critics; the Dones, the Nones, and the...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

And Yet: Two Words to Transform The Church

A friend of mine who works in youth ministry has a theory: Millennials, contrary to...

July 29, 2015

A Good Week For Progress: Boy Scouts, Football, and America’s Man Caves

I live in Kansas--which, let's face it, has never been the most forward-thinking place, but...

July 28, 2015

Sinking Ships: 6 Do’s, and One Big Don’t, for Fundraising

Ever been on a sinking ship? I have. Literally. But not for long. Because the...

July 27, 2015

More than Half Enough

Guest post, by Rev. Ryan Motter “Well, look at you. You’re half the man you...

July 19, 2015

Home By Another Way

I'm at my denomination's General Assembly this week. Every other year, in the HOTTEST PART...

July 13, 2015

Saving Atticus

One day, all is right with the literary world... And then suddenly, one of the most...

July 10, 2015

Cloud By Day: Living With Ambiguity and Measuring Ministry

In every generation, people of faith journey across the hazy plains of “What does this...

July 02, 2015

Thin Pink Line: Teaching My Daughter About a Woman’s Place

The poorly applied fuchsia lipstick. The nervous stage mothers pounding Starbucks. (The GLITTER SPRAY. God...

July 01, 2015

Self-Evident Truths: 7 Ways the Constitution is Not the Bible

When it comes to guns, religion and the display of hateful symbols on public property,...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Holy Edges: 10 Things to Preach if Your Church is Divided on Gay Marriage

It’s going to be a great day at my church tomorrow. My congregation has been...

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