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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...

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 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 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 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...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Pandemic: We Are One Body

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

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...

February 2020

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 01, 2020

Blessed: The Lie That Built America

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

December 2019

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...

November 2019

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...

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...

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 12, 2019

Falling Home

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

June 06, 2019

Summer Reading List: The Year of the Memoir

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Well, that's a lie. Fall is the...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Expecto Patronum: Magic Words Won’t End Gun Violence

I'm at my in-laws' house for the weekend. The news is on TV. My daughter...

May 06, 2019

Unlikely Pulpits: The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans

She was a voice in the wilderness. Many say that Rachel Held Evans was the...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

The Solution To The Migration Crisis Is Stronger Communities, Not Higher Walls

I just got back from Honduras. Otherwise known around these parts as “Mexico,” at least...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

‘We Just Want the Guns Back’: New Zealand’s Brave Response to Terror, and What the U.S. Can Learn

In the wake of a horrific act of gun violence that took the lives of...

March 13, 2019

If More Teachers Were Men: 7 Things That Would Be Different In Education

It's a sick-out day in our school district. Again. This is our fifth day out...

March 12, 2019

The Church and Trending Homophobia: What Are We Afraid Of?

Stop me if you've heard it: A Catholic school in a suburb of Kansas City...