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March 2020

March 04, 2020

Vote From The Edge: What’s Next After Super Tuesday Disappointment

Full disclosure, I'm feeling more than a little salty that the primaries are set up...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Giving Up or Showing Up: Lent And The Less Easy Way

Temptation is a loaded word. Does it make you think first of standard-issue sin, like stealing, adultery,...

February 14, 2020

Every Kind of Love Song

Well I asked for it. I asked my Facebook on this Valentine's Day morning for...

February 05, 2020

Amped Up: The Adulation of Rush Limbaugh

I didn't watch the SOTU. I know I should watch to know what we're resisting,...

February 02, 2020

The Character Of Our City, And The Problem With the Chop: Kansas City On Super Bowl Sunday

Guest post: Rev. Laura Ann Phillips I love sports. I’m not great at playing any...

February 01, 2020

Blessed: The Lie That Built America

We are so blessed. Or maybe I should say, we are so "blessed." The problem...

January 2020

January 18, 2020

Keeping Time

It's a rainy, gray Saturday morning, and I'm dropping my daughter off at the theater...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

Signs and Wonders

It was not rare to have visitors in my office. But it was extremely rare...

December 11, 2019

Threshold: How To Make A Hard Decision

Maybe it's the schedule full of festivities, the time spent with friends and family you...

December 06, 2019

Rend the Heavens: Do We Really Want God to Come Down?

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

When Your Best Tradition Is No Tradition: Home Is Where Your Pie Is

We used to spend Thanksgivings on the farm. The idyllic, iconic American experience. Mamaw would...

November 26, 2019

Magnify The Joy: Hope and Gratitude In the Midst of Illness

I've had the privilege of knowing Shawn McGuffey since college-- which means I've had the...

November 17, 2019

Waste The Stamp: Letters to Santa, and Other Acts of Faith

There is a 9-year-old scientist in my house who can name for you every element...

November 11, 2019

Permission To Unperfect

My Girl Child was melting down. It was 8am, the Wednesday after a 4-day weekend....

November 03, 2019

A Cloud of Witnesses

He'd been making the rounds. The man in the trench coat, Bible in hand, burst...

October 2019

October 23, 2019

We’re Not Going Home

Guest Post: Rev. Megan Severns Huston “My new office is by the band room” Mom...

October 01, 2019

October Is Burning: 31 Days To Save The Planet

Oh, October. How I love thee. Let me count the ways. On this sacred occasion--October...

September 2019

September 22, 2019

Americans Are Starved For Community: TV Might Be The Answer

Dillon, Texas. Pawnee, Indiana. Stars Hollow, Connecticut. These are my favorite places to visit when...

September 18, 2019

Sit With The Fear: Why The New Sandy Hook Promise Video Should Leave You Haunted

I love a good scare this time of year. Creeping up on October, I'll re-read...

September 04, 2019

Deferred Maintenance

You know how when you have major life transitions going on--like moving, settling your family...

August 2019

August 16, 2019

The Myth of Self-Sufficiency: And How The “Public Charge” Rule Perpetuates It

The myth of American bootstraps is alive and well. The economy teeters on the edge...

August 07, 2019

Maybe Our “Thoughts And Prayers” Are The Wrong Kind of Prayer

Prayer is not meaningless. Sure, it is no magic bullet (pun intended, hard). Nor is...

July 2019

July 20, 2019

Together In One Place: A 12-Point Survival Guide For Your Large Denominational Gathering

You'll be overwhelmed. You'll be exhausted. You'll look like you've been through a week of...

July 17, 2019

How To Be A Guest: 7 Things I Learned About Visiting A New Church

It was an alien experience for me, pulling in that "visitor" parking spot. But after...

July 11, 2019

Sexism and Sins Of The Progressive Church

I heard a collective sigh go up this morning, as clergywomen across America read the...

July 04, 2019

Who’s Free?

Hey you Over there on that side of history, on that side of the fence…...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Indefensible: What To Do Now–And Later–To Help Children Detained At the Border

Concentration camp [con·cen·tra·tion camp] noun. def: a place where...

June 20, 2019

A Bigger Table: 7 Ways to Observe World Refugee Day

There are 71 million refugees in the world right now--more than at any other time...

June 15, 2019

Love Before Everything: And Other Father’s Day Wisdom

Guest Post: by Chris Furr The single greatest moment in my baseball career came when...

June 12, 2019

Falling Home

I’m sitting on the patio of an Irish pub, a few blocks from my church,...

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