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June 2015

June 26, 2015

A Good Week For Progress, and the Power of “What’s Next”

Can we just take a moment and count the ways in which this has been...

June 24, 2015

Good Call: 10 Ways to Nail that Pastoral Search Interview

It's that time again. All over the country, exhausted pastoral search committees plow through another...

June 23, 2015

Prisoners, Nuns and Mockingbirds: a Summer Reading List

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Summer is for slackers. And non-fiction...

June 22, 2015

Signs, Symbols, and Things that Hurt Us

After last week’s mass shooting at a Charleston AME church, predictable threads of dialogue emerged...

June 17, 2015

Happy Birthday, Car

A guest post by Lee Hull Moses Sometime this summer, my car, a Matrix hatchback...

June 15, 2015

How to talk about religion on Facebook

Guest Post by Sarah Stewart Holland At least once a week, I get the same...

June 10, 2015

Who Run the World (#ChurchGirls): 10 Threatening Women to Watch

You guys, this is adorable. A friend sent me this blog post about how to know...

June 09, 2015

Wade in the Water: Pools, Fountains, and the Stain of Segregation

If the image of a 200+pound white man with a gun, pinning an unarmed, 90...

June 03, 2015

A Post Not About Caitlyn Jenner

People are tired of talking about Caitlyn Jenner. Or so my newsfeed says. Best I...

June 02, 2015

Fear, Faith and Freedom: What You and I Know about Anti-Muslim Rallies

*Ritzheimer. I mean… it just SOUNDS like a Nazi caricature. A cartoon bad guy with...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

The New Art of Poor-Shaming

Now trending: America discovers cruel and creative ways to further strip away the dignity of its...

May 27, 2015

The Ultimate Summer Slacker List: Reclaiming Sabbath

Hey, all y'all “summer bucket list people.” I love you and you’re adorable, and I...

May 26, 2015

10 Marks of Fundamentalism

Listen, let’s talk about this. Based on the comments section of last week’s post about...

May 22, 2015

What About the Girls? The Duggar Scandal and the Cost of Fundamentalism

This is what comes of fundamentalism. This week in the news, the Duggar family--made popular...

May 20, 2015

A Voice in the Desert

Sometimes, I wish I were still in Phoenix. Like in January. That’s a given. Or...

May 12, 2015

Which Body: Gay Marriage and Christian Unity

Last week, Adam Hamilton shared this post about gay marriage in the United Methodist Church....

May 05, 2015

Beyond Pink Carnations: Why I Don’t Do Mother’s Day at Church

Most Sunday mornings, I take a few prayerful moments before worship. I stand at the...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist

I cringe when an article begins “Dear White People…” It lacks nuance, among other things....

April 27, 2015

Anatomy of Worth: TV’s Sanctity of Life Problem

McDreamy is McDead. And I was too distracted by the bad writing to be upset....

April 21, 2015

10 Signs of Life: Your Church Might Just Make It

I once took a group of church leaders on a planning/visioning retreat. We read and...

April 16, 2015

Welcome to the Jungle, II: A Man’s Take on School Harassment

In my post yesterday, I cited a statistic that 83% of girls report being sexually...

April 15, 2015

You’re In the Jungle, Baby: Sexual Harassment at School (and elsewhere)

I saw a statistic yesterday that said 83% of girls are sexually harassed in high school....

April 03, 2015

Here is Your Son, Here is Your Mother

"Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and...

April 02, 2015

Resurrection Matters: The Holy Unknowing

The insistence on a literal, physical, bodily resurrection is killing the conservative Church. The denial...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Holy Week Survival Guide: 10 Life Hacks for Clergy

Lace up the trainers, zip up your robe. Eye of the tiger, baby. It is...

March 26, 2015

From the Crowd to the Cross: Palm Sunday and Religious Liberty

Palm Sunday--the gateway to Holy Week. Which is not only deeply sacred and important and...

March 24, 2015

I Never: Hilarious Pre-Kid Promises

Wrote this a few weeks ago as a guest post for my friend Sarah, aka...

March 19, 2015

$^*t Jesus Says: The “No Trespassing” Edition

No, it wasn’t an Onion article. You read that right. A cathedral in San Francisco—where...

March 18, 2015

Still Time

For Lent, I was going write about Lent. Well and often. And then, I found...

March 11, 2015

Unlaced and Undone

There was a “Kindness Assembly” at my daughter’s school today. One kid from each class...

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