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April 2017

April 10, 2017

A Blessing for Holy Week Journeys

As I celebrated Palm Sunday with my congregation this year, I wondered: what way do...

April 02, 2017

Dust

We are dust; to dust we shall return. In between? God calls us to carry...

March 2017

March 05, 2017

Remember: A Lenten Call to Embodied Justice-Making

Three remembrances were stirred up for me this week and will trouble my feet as...

February 2017

February 12, 2017

Biorhythmic Resistance

I hear in these ancient words a call to embrace and embody life as gift,...

February 05, 2017

Answered Prayer

Dr. William Barber, II, is a hero. He wrote an op-ed this week following the...

January 2017

January 01, 2017

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years: The First Sunday after Christmas

On the First Sunday after Christmas, mere days after the newborn Jesus has snuggled into...

December 2016

December 25, 2016

Christmas Day: And the Word Became Flesh

Give us wisdom, Earth-dwelling God, to talk less and birth your Word each day in...

December 18, 2016

Advent Four:  Lighting the Tiny Lights

Seeing all the violence in Aleppo and other places, I fear that Advent may bleed...

December 16, 2016

An Advent Poem

truth / the setting-free kind if you know it / you should speak it

December 11, 2016

Advent Three:  Crocus Blossoms in Desert Places

While searching a closet for Christmas decorations the other day, I pulled out a dusty...

December 04, 2016

Advent Two: Stumped while Seeking Peace in Zootopia

Reading this text after scrolling through my newsfeed’s local and global headlines of ongoing incidents...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

Seeing Christ in the Abyss

How should people of faith respond to the horrors and complexities of migration?

July 04, 2016

On Saying Goodbye to the Night: Thoughts on Fireworks, Spaceships and Justice-Making

Where were you five years ago on July 4th?

June 2016

June 19, 2016

power in the blood

I have been searching for what to say or even think about the Orlando massacre....

April 2016

April 15, 2016

Breaking: A Poem

This poem emerged as I thought about news stories and headlines I encountered last week...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

In Our Bones: Holy Week Reflections

I do not dance with ease on any day. I stumble even more on Palm...

February 2016

February 09, 2016

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

The seasons of Lent and Easter in Christian traditions call us to reflect on rhythms...

January 2016

January 03, 2016

Twelfth Night: Reflections on Epiphany 2016

Twelfth Night is upon us, the eve of Epiphany when we remember how magi from...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

Advent Four:  Do You Hear What I Hear?

Snow falls. Gently. Lights twinkle in houses festive with welcoming wreathes. Santa and eight tiny...

December 13, 2015

Advent Three: Rejoice?

I have been thinking in recent days that perhaps this Advent we should forego Rejoice...

December 06, 2015

Advent Two: Longing for Sunlight and Song

The songs and images of the Advent and Christmas season stir in many people a...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Advent One: Longing

In my church this Sunday, we will begin the Advent season by hearing biblical texts...

November 23, 2015

Upon a Midnight

This poem is a prayer for God to be born anew—right now—in each of God’s...

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