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July 2016

July 18, 2016

Just One Thing: On Hearing and Being Heard

Sermon from Sunday, July 17; Luke 10:38-42 The man said to the doctor, “I’m concerned...

July 11, 2016

Good Christian Sex: Not an Oxymoron

Guest Post, by Bromleigh McCleneghan Last spring, I told the committee that hired me as the...

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...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Why We Don’t Want To Be Made Well

Guest post: by Ed Cyzewski Do you have any moments from your past that make...

June 22, 2016

Get Off the Fence: Why “We Welcome Everyone” Isn’t Enough

Since last week's horrific shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, many pastors have offered words...

June 21, 2016

And This Will Be Our Penance

Just to recap... Conservative leaders are running on platforms of "zero tolerance" for terrorism--and Muslims in general,...

June 17, 2016

They Want Us Dead: Hate and Marginalized Communities

A powerful guest post from my college friend, Shawn McGuffey. An important read that needs to be...

June 15, 2016

Grief for the Villians

A guest post: by Rev. Elizabeth Grasham My ex-husband calls my cellphone once a week...

June 09, 2016

Running While Female: A Survivor’s Story

The story of Brock Turner has rape culture on everyone's minds this week--but that story...

June 06, 2016

The Late and The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, and What Gets Remembered

I know nothing about boxing. Except that it's a dang sight more artful and athletic...

June 01, 2016

Ticking Clock and Turning Tide

We are not theme park people. We are National Park people. We are beach people....

May 2016

May 24, 2016

$10 In My Pocket

Guest Post: by Tiffany Flaming I have $10 in my pocket. It might as well...

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...

May 18, 2016

The Poetry of Emptiness: Reflections from the Festival of Homiletics

Guest post: My friend and colleague Rev. Laura Ann Phillips shares a good word from...

May 17, 2016

The Soulmaking Room: Review

There's an obscure story in 2 Kings (that reads "Second Kings," for all you politicians...

May 09, 2016

Cleaning the Brushes: The Never-Done Work of Ministry

My friend Kory shares some thoughts on the "never done-ness" of ministry. On behalf of...

May 06, 2016

Healing and Holding Up the World: A Tribute for National Nurse Week

Guest Post: by Elizabeth Myer Boulton My mother was a nurse all her professional life...

May 03, 2016

Lost and Found: A Parable In Socks

You know what was great about living in the desert all those years? Among other...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

An Ecological Conversion: Called by God (and a Scientist) in the Cloud Forest

Guest Post: by Scott Hardin-Nieri Our family delighted in God’s creation as we served in...

April 21, 2016

Handing Hate the Microphone

Kansas legislators recently introduced a measure that would require transgender students (at public schools and universities)...

April 20, 2016

7 Ways From Sunday: 7 True Things From 7 Years of Blogging

Yesterday, I logged into my "back end" blog stuff to edit something and noticed--purely by...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

No Tribe But Ours: A Refugee Story

I really just carried the fruit basket... But I'll tell you about that in a...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Die Laughing: It’s a Lent Thing

It's all heavy sometimes. Life. Ministry. Lent. Winter. An election year. All of it. Some...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

For the Turning: A Progressive Year in Review

Dear Friends and citizens of the internet, I know I'm not alone in feeling that...

September 2015

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...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Clean Hands, Full Hearts (Can’t Lose): A Sermon About Purity and Tradition

7Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered...

August 20, 2015

The Naked Truth About Dress Codes

Women's bodies sure are controversial these days. And not just in the political/ideological sense regarding reproductive rights...

August 19, 2015

Healing and Hilarity in “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome”

If David Sedaris and Anne Lamott had a baby together... it would be this book....

July 2015

July 27, 2015

More than Half Enough

Guest post, by Rev. Ryan Motter “Well, look at you. You’re half the man you...

July 02, 2015

Thin Pink Line: Teaching My Daughter About a Woman’s Place

The poorly applied fuchsia lipstick. The nervous stage mothers pounding Starbucks. (The GLITTER SPRAY. God...