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April 2018

April 21, 2018

Without the Earth, We’d Be Nothing

"But every once in a while, with a basket in hand, or a peach or...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Careful, Your Misogyny is Showing

“I want to come home to a home cooked dinner at six every...

January 17, 2018

The Fight is Not With Each Other

A few months ago, I spent a weekend at a retreat in the mountains of...

December 2017

December 11, 2017

Remembering Single Parents This Christmas

I’ve been doing what a lot of Americans do during the Christmas season: watching cheesy...

October 2017

October 09, 2017

Why Every Day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Step out and beyond. There are invisible realities in the world, stories the history...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Our Good Intentions Aren’t Enough Anymore

When power and privilege make our decisions and control our actions, sometimes our good intentions...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

The Tension of the Lord’s Supper For Today

Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he...

July 2017

July 18, 2017

GENERATIONAL GOD: a wild goose poem

[I wrote this poem on a Friday afternoon, laying in my tent looking up...

July 06, 2017

God Says You Can Still Transform

transform: to make it through a dramatic change in appearance or character. On the very...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

God For Those Still Holding On

Taste and see that the Lord is good. This word is not for the faint...

June 11, 2017

PEOPLE WHO HOLD SPACE WILL HEAL THE CHURCH

When I married my husband, he'd just cut off his dreads and was an avid...

June 05, 2017

WHY I STILL CALL GOD “FATHER”

When I first came to my current church, I noticed that in many worship songs,...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

PENTECOST: THE HOLY GHOST & NATIVE CEREMONY

Growing up in the Southern Baptist church, the only holidays on the liturgical calendar in...

May 27, 2017

When We Pray For Dying Children

Last night when I couldn't sleep, I got up to walk around the house for...

May 21, 2017

WHEN ALL THAT IS LEFT IS JESUS

Someone recently asked me, "Why on earth are you still going to church? You, of...

May 18, 2017

When The Good Things Become Visible

Mno waben. Mno waben. I held my three year old son in the early morning...

May 12, 2017

To My Sisters Who Mourn on Mother’s Day

Sister, I wish you could have been with us in that room, four walls surrounding...

May 08, 2017

JESUS & US: a shared wilderness

Mark 1:4-12 4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

EASTER & BEYOND: the cross as crossing over

cross: to start one place and get to the other side When I was young, I...

March 20, 2017

The Truth About Your Story Is That The World Needs To Hear It

When I began my blog five years ago, I named it Stories because I needed a...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

ONLY LOVE (every part of yourself) TODAY

In a small group exercise recently, all participants were asked to rank our life identities...

February 21, 2017

BEFORE: a poem

Last week I spent a few days in Nashville at the Convergence Music Project conference--...

February 06, 2017

ROOM AT THE TABLE: the church & Native American spirituality

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To...

February 01, 2017

DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP: the immigrant at your table

Dear President Trump, Last Thanksgiving, we had a dear friend over for lunch. She'd never...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

HE OVERTURNED TABLES: Jesus’ Teaching on Responsibility and Blame

Diffusion of Responsibility: simply put, when a task is placed before a group of people,...

January 23, 2017

AN ATHEIST & A CHRISTIAN WALK INTO A BAR…

ACTUALLY, it was a social work classroom. She had a shaved head and I had...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

My ONE WORD for 2017

I stood at my sister's kitchen sink the other night, after we'd had a post-Christmas meal...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Advent 2016: hope, grief, and Jesus unimagined

Years and years ago, advent came as a long season, generations of waiting and hoping...

November 22, 2016

Shalom: her magnetic heart

You and I are "other" to each other, foreign creatures, locked in our independent skin....

November 07, 2016

When We Are World Citizens

In the course of the last week, I have witnessed Native Americans fight for water...

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