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December 2015

December 01, 2015

Naughty or Nice: Tell Your Kids They’re Good

I swear I didn't lose it on purpose. Here's how it happened. When my daughter...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Keeping the Light

Normally, I’m a purist. Nothing green or sparkly goes up at my house until the...

November 28, 2015

The Diverse Face of Terrorism: Thoughts on the Planned Parenthood Shooting

We don't know much, in these early hours after the shooting at a Planned Parenthood...

November 24, 2015

Room at the Table: 7 Perks of Welcoming Refugees

Repeat after me: Not all Muslims are extremists; the U.S. Government ALREADY does rigorous screening on...

November 17, 2015

What Faith and Freedom Demand

I had no idea... I had no idea that so many people were total experts...

November 07, 2015

Lost in the Crowd

It's been a big week in Kansas City. Following the Royals' World Series win, we pretty...

November 02, 2015

In All Kinds of Weather

The Royals won the World Series last night for the first time in 30 years,...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Faith in a Time of Fear

Guest post: Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon Think back to the images from last year in...

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 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 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 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...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Home By Another Way

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

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 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 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...

May 2015

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...

April 2015

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....

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Waiting for a Punchline: Llama-Crossing, Viral Dress-Watching, and Kansas Being Kansas

Why did the llamas cross the road? a) To get farther away from Kansas; b)...

February 02, 2015

Monday Morning Quarterbacking

Don’t worry. I will not attempt to talk sports. I’m just here for the commercials....

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Family Value(s) Meal

I triple dog dare somebody to go and try the new ‘vegetarian slider’ at White...

January 12, 2015

Writing, Rushdie, and My 12 Year-old Self: Thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo Shootings

Guest Post by Brandon Gilvin When I woke up this morning, I expected to write...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Thanksgiving W/ Jesus

This is a sermon. I rarely write them out in manuscript form, and even when...