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December 2020

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...

August 2020

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...

May 2020

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 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 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...

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...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

Crossing Over: A Trip to the Border, in Pictures

Last week, I made a quick trip to Arizona, and an even quicker trip down...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Wednesday Writing Prompt: When Summer Was Outside

For today's Wednesday writing prompt, I was going to invite you to describe a summer...

April 2017

April 02, 2017

From a Small Circle

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

The War On Fall

Let me tell you this really sad thing I used to do when I lived...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

The End of Us: Where Love Is Not Enough

Love is not enough. I'm a pastor, so I'm not supposed to say that. As...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Beneath Our Feet: A Summer Psalm

1 O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set...

February 2016

February 10, 2016

The Death We Carry

I've been planning this for weeks. An intentional out-of-office beginning to Lent; traveling to different...

July 2015

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...

June 2015

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...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Still Time

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

March 04, 2015

The Damp Murkiness of our Inner Underworld

“There is a part of the soul that stirs at night, in the dark and...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Not in the Fire, Not in the Wind

The following is from week 2 of the sermon series "Doors and Windows: Faces of...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

Extreme God

Four months ago, I was preparing to leave Phoenix. In early September, it was still...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

In Season

It's fixin to be June in Phoenix. Lord help us... Some of you know that...

May 01, 2013

Rootless and Wandering

If you ever wonder what pastors talk about when we get together, the topics are,...

March 2013

March 14, 2013

$*^! Jesus Says: Seeds and Weeds Edition

For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Watered Down

True story: my husband and i were out having dinner at a nice restaurant. Which...

February 13, 2013

Ashes and Casseroles: The Business of Life

I did a funeral this morning for a beloved saint of the church. Now I'm working...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Goodness and Truth

It was that lovely week of Christmas when utterly NOTHING happens at church, and we clergy types...

January 04, 2013

Failure to Adapt

our mainline churches are dying from this 'failure to adapt' that we see in the...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Like Frosty Said… the Sun Was Hot That Day

I think i say this, or something like it, every year of the world. But,...

November 17, 2012

til by Turning, Turning, We Come ‘Round Right

Spoiler alert: if you are coming to Foothills for worship tomorrow and you want to be...