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July 2018

July 02, 2018

Last Week Was Hard: Moving Reproductive Justice Forward with Faith

We cannot allow narrow ideological commitments rooted in fear, disinformation, and prejudice to shape our...

April 2018

April 07, 2018

What is Progressive Christianity?

The term "progressive" has long been used to represent an understanding of Christianity marked by...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Will You Go to Church on Easter?

I am tired of God the Father. I am tired of the traditional, patriarchal Trinitarian...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

How to Reject Xenophobia – Have Lunch Instead!

There many things - large and small - that Christians can do to fight the...

February 10, 2017

How White People Gather to Undermine White Supremacy

Last Sunday, two colleagues and I greeted a group of thirty-three people over a shared...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

Rediscovering the Joy of Worship

Lately, it has been a chore to go to church. After all, I really ought...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Has North Carolina become the “Hate State”?

Clearly, being Christian means something different to me than to many people in NC who...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Is Slavery Really Over?

White people will never be able to understand the problem of policing and the black...

February 16, 2016

What Does the Lord Require of You? A Message for Comfortable Christians

Comfortable Christians need to step out of our comfort zones and begin to take risks...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

Peace on Earth? Is Misogyny Ever Innocent?

Let me say right off the bat – I don’t know this family or the...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Protestant Pope Envy

As a feminist, I see this difference between our ecclesial structures – the difference between...

September 21, 2015

I’m Christian, But I’m Not. . .

As a Presbyterian minister and a progressive Christian ethicist, when the young people on the...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Misogyny is Exhausting

While misogyny is deeply embedded in the development, history, and theology of Christianity, this does...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Why My Heart Breaks When Churches “Leave” the PCUSA

My heart broke a little as I rode my bike past that church. It broke...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

What Does “Visible Unity” Look Like?

The world is always changing and the church grows and changes in response to the...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Why I’m Ecumenical

Christianity was never meant to be about us. Like my dad taught me, we are...

April 14, 2015

Are Scholar-Activists Welcome in the Academy?

People enter the academy for a variety of reasons. Some of us love books and...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

On Death and Denominationalism

[third in a series of posts addressed to understanding denominations and ecumenism] What would you die...

March 23, 2015

Why I’m Presbyterian

[this is the second in a series of posts addressed to understanding denominations and ecumenism]...

March 21, 2015

Catechism, Christianity, and Chocolate Soda

When I joined the Presbyterian Church in 7th grade, I was required to memorize the...