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April 2020

April 26, 2020

If We Weren’t Afraid: What Is The Post-Pandemic Church Going To Be?

We've all got a story we've told too many times, right? Mine is this: Once,...

January 2019

January 03, 2019

Take Out The Trash: The Fight For A Border Wall Is Killing Our National Parks

Some of my best memories are of time spent in National Parks. When my husband...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Aretha Didn’t Have a Will: Here are Five Reasons You Should

This just in: Aretha Franklin didn't have a will. Granted, her legacy is about far...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Called to Serve the Poor People’s Campaign

Guest post by the Rev. Megan Severns Huston The first time I met the Rev....

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Outside the Box: Rethinking Holiday Charitable Giving

I am fundamentally opposed to Black Friday shopping. For many reasons, not the least of...

November 13, 2017

At the Same Table: On God’s Economy, and Serving Two Masters

A stewardship sermon on Luke 16:1-13. The Parable of the Dishonest Manager 16 Then Jesus said to...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

10 Ways to Celebrate The National Parks Centennial

There are few things I love more than National Parks. So there are many places...

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 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...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Sinking Ships: 6 Do’s, and One Big Don’t, for Fundraising

Ever been on a sinking ship? I have. Literally. But not for long. Because the...

November 2012

November 03, 2012

Scattered and Sown

So this farmer went out with a bunch of seeds. And he scattered them far and...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Preparing a Place

Sometimes the best, most life-giving things in the life of a church evolve without a...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

Ask: Why Fear of Death is Killing the Church

if we were not all so afraid of our own mortality, we'd be much more...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

For Such a Time as This

I was sitting on the floor of my crummy first-year-of-being-a-grownup apartment, doing grad school homework...

September 01, 2011

A Cup of the Good Stuff

When's the last time you got out the good china? After I went on and...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Bless This Mess (without the stress)

Listen to me, young folks in your 20's, figuring out what you're going to be--I...

August 29, 2011

Unknown

It was a rare (RARE) Saturday afternoon moment. Both kids were asleep at the same...

August 27, 2011

Saturday Night’s Alright (just alright)

One thing they don't tell you when you go into the ministry [wait--there are about...

August 22, 2011

The Greatest Sweepstakes EVER

My aunt has won vehicles in sweepstakes contests. Not once. Not twice. But THREE TIMES. Impossibly...

August 20, 2011

Too Marvelous For Me

On occasion, it becomes necessary to bring one's children to one's office. I may not...

August 19, 2011

Undeclared (The Real Freshman Rule Book)

Know what makes me feel old? When kids i knew when they were LITTLE kids...

August 10, 2011

There is No One Like Our God

There is no "I" in Christian. Oh, wait... I've finally figured it out. Why I...

August 09, 2011

Stop Making Me Look So Hot!

There are bad pictures out there, of every single one of us. Images of ourselves...

August 08, 2011

Muffin Moment: A Mean Mom and Minister

I gave her 3 chances. I am not a mean mom. 3 chances to help...

August 05, 2011

Where You From?

even though I grew up in Kentucky, I did not know I was from Kentucky...

August 04, 2011

The Brown Marker

The good news is, she didn’t go for the walls. She didn’t go for the...

August 03, 2011

Nice Enough

Nice Enough… I moved last month. If you haven’t seen a blog post about the...

June 2011

June 20, 2011

Wherein I Decline to Support Cancer

This is what the Church is up against, folks. The people who come through our...

June 08, 2011

Tomato, To-mah-to…

Well, about this time every year, i commence whining. About the miserable desert heat, about the...