Archive Index

June 2013

• June 12, 2013 The Other Side of Your Wedding Day: Stuff the Preacher's Not Telling You
• June 6, 2013 Freedom Within, Freedom Without
• June 4, 2013 Evolving Faith
• June 1, 2013 On Enjoying the Show

May 2013

• May 29, 2013 In Season
• May 26, 2013 My Ordinnaversary
• May 21, 2013 Joy in the Morning. Again.
• May 17, 2013 The Gospel of Dunder Mifflin
• May 14, 2013 What Does this Mean?
• May 1, 2013 Rootless and Wandering

April 2013

• April 30, 2013 Recipe for Joy--Review
• April 19, 2013 Psalm 23-and-a-half
• April 16, 2013 When Good People Say Dumb Stuff
• April 11, 2013 Head and Heart
• April 9, 2013 Baby Jesus to Bloody Jesus: The Children's Ministry Challenge
• April 4, 2013 To Witness
• April 2, 2013 Don't You Know Who I Am?

March 2013

• March 28, 2013 The Trouble With Your "Lifestyle"
• March 27, 2013 Love, Lars, and Lent Lessons
• March 26, 2013 A Song and a Prayer: The Holy Week Playlist
• March 25, 2013 For Goodness' Sake
• March 22, 2013 Showing Up
• March 21, 2013 Pink Bags (and Other Baggage)
• March 18, 2013 Sympathy for the Devil?
• March 14, 2013 $*^! Jesus Says: Seeds and Weeds Edition
• March 13, 2013 The Way the Wind Blows
• March 12, 2013 Using Our Words: Power Verbs for the Language of Faith
• March 6, 2013 Prepare the Way: Why I Need Carbs (and Coffee) for Lent
• March 5, 2013 Everything I Really Needed to Know About Ministry, I Learned as a Sorority Rush Chair
• March 1, 2013 The Secret Password

February 2013

• February 26, 2013 Year of the Dude: Hyper-Masculinity in Marketing, Media and Mega-church
• February 22, 2013 Snow Days, Sick Days, and Other Enforced Sabbaths
• February 20, 2013 Watered Down
• February 19, 2013 Downer Abbey
• February 15, 2013 The New Anonymous
• February 14, 2013 Out of the (little black) Box
• February 13, 2013 Ashes and Casseroles: The Business of Life
• February 12, 2013 Forwarding Address
• February 7, 2013 Out of Joint
• February 6, 2013 Zumba-dy Stop Me
• February 1, 2013 Those Guys are Awesome

January 2013

• January 30, 2013 The Risk of Relationship
• January 29, 2013 Moral Compromise
• January 25, 2013 For Life. Still.
• January 24, 2013 Goodness and Truth
• January 22, 2013 Your Jesus looks like a frat guy...
• January 21, 2013 Another Dream
• January 20, 2013 $*^! Jesus Says: Wedding Edition
• January 18, 2013 God of the Facebook Meme
• January 17, 2013 The Rhythms of Grace
• January 15, 2013 The "Yes"es Have It
• January 11, 2013 Cold News
• January 10, 2013 As Often As You Do This...
• January 9, 2013 The Unapologetics
• January 8, 2013 The Gospel of Grantham
• January 4, 2013 Failure to Adapt
• January 3, 2013 The Tenth Day of Christmas: Elf Hats, Broken Candles, and Leftover S'Mores

December 2012

• December 24, 2012 Go and See
• December 22, 2012 Filled with Good Things
• December 21, 2012 Daring to Wait
• December 20, 2012 Tell Me Again
• December 19, 2012 In Church, at Christmastime
• December 18, 2012 Do Not Be Afraid
• December 16, 2012 In the Bleak Midwinter
• December 13, 2012 In Due Time
• December 13, 2012 What We Never Knew We Needed
• December 11, 2012 Week 2, Day 2: Magnificat
• December 10, 2012 To Sing While We Wait
• December 7, 2012 Week 1, Day 5: In All Things, Peace
• December 6, 2012 Week 1, Day 4: Our Every Gift
• December 5, 2012 A Measure of Elf Awareness
• December 4, 2012 Week 1, Day 2: Homecoming
• December 3, 2012 Advent: Week 1, Day 1
• December 1, 2012 A Prayer for World AIDS Day

November 2012

• November 29, 2012 Are We Still On This?
• November 28, 2012 An Empty House
• November 26, 2012 Like Frosty Said... the Sun Was Hot That Day
• November 24, 2012 Top 10 Reasons Christians Should Stop Whining About Secular Xmas
• November 17, 2012 til by Turning, Turning, We Come 'Round Right
• November 15, 2012 Fresh Batch of Good News
• November 13, 2012 Practicing Gratitude
• November 8, 2012 Change Gonna Come
• November 7, 2012 Next...
• November 6, 2012 We The People
• November 5, 2012 Joy in the Morning
• November 3, 2012 Scattered and Sown
• November 3, 2012 Scent of the Sacred
• November 1, 2012 Thin Places: Sanctuary

October 2012

• October 31, 2012 Cut and Paste
• October 30, 2012 ...but the Lord was not in the wind
• October 29, 2012 Simple Gifts
• October 26, 2012 In the Presence of the World
• October 25, 2012 How God Gets Stuff Done
• October 24, 2012 A Bad Political Hair Day
• October 22, 2012 just say grace
• October 19, 2012 One More Piece of the Puzzle
• October 17, 2012 Primetime Throwdown (yes, Brian Williams just said 'throwdown...')
• October 16, 2012 Like a Child
• October 9, 2012 In the End, There's Cake
• October 5, 2012 Golden Arch

September 2012

• September 27, 2012 Unto Others
• September 26, 2012 50 Shades of "Seriously?"
• September 25, 2012 The Pottery Barn Catalog (and other pornographic literature...)
• September 21, 2012 5:16
• September 13, 2012 Benediction
• September 12, 2012 Preparing a Place
• September 7, 2012 Rain Dance
• September 6, 2012 The One Where I'm the Grownup

August 2012

• August 31, 2012 I Gotta Ramble...
• August 22, 2012 Sometimes, It Falls from the Sky
• August 21, 2012 For Life
• August 17, 2012 Ask: Why Fear of Death is Killing the Church
• August 16, 2012 On Doing, and Being Done
• August 15, 2012 Ode to Phoenix in Summer
• August 14, 2012 If You're Still Saying "Lifestyle," We've Still Got a Problem...
• August 10, 2012 What Whining Will Get You...
• August 9, 2012 A Good Word
• August 3, 2012 Fearfully, Wonderfully
• August 2, 2012 Freedom, Rights, and Chicken Fights

July 2012

• July 25, 2012 Playing Chicken
• July 24, 2012 What We Can Learn...
• July 23, 2012 Push Pause to Start

June 2012

• June 9, 2012 The Great American Road Trip
• June 1, 2012 To Be

May 2012

• May 26, 2012 A Perfect Day
• May 17, 2012 Flex Space, Sacred Space
• May 15, 2012 The Story You Thought You Knew
• May 11, 2012 Confession: Progressive Christians Love the Bible, Too
• May 10, 2012 Immediately
• May 9, 2012 We Hold Some Truths to be Self-Evident...
• May 8, 2012 A Moving Picture
• May 3, 2012 S*^! Jesus Says: The Missionary Edition
• May 1, 2012 The Mercy Instinct

April 2012

• April 26, 2012 Good Stuff
• April 25, 2012 Unwound
• April 24, 2012 Under Pressure
• April 23, 2012 More S*^! Jesus Says
• April 20, 2012 Take a Load Off
• April 19, 2012 Spinach
• April 18, 2012 Dear Church: It's Not You, It's Us
• April 12, 2012 GCB: The Good, the Gag-me, and the Gospel
• April 10, 2012 S*^! Jesus Says... Or Doesn't
• April 6, 2012 Songs from the Wilderness
• April 4, 2012 A Sacred Discomfort

March 2012

• March 31, 2012 A Handful of Change
• March 29, 2012 Louder and Less Polite
• March 28, 2012 The Business of Babies: A shopping list, a Lent reflection, and a bit of a memoir...
• March 27, 2012 Yes, AND: The Gospel of Tina Fey for Congregational Transformation
• March 21, 2012 Carmelized
• March 20, 2012 A Primer for New Life: Painting Over Pastels
• March 6, 2012 Road-Trippy Soul Food

February 2012

• February 22, 2012 Outlived and Outgrown
• February 17, 2012 Fishing for Real Food
• February 14, 2012 The English Major Diet: Valentine's Day Edition
• February 11, 2012 Day 2.5; New Mexico
• February 11, 2012 Day 2; Burgers, Burritos and Beginnings
• February 9, 2012 The English Major Diet: Day 1
• February 8, 2012 The Faulty Filter
• February 7, 2012 If-i-sodes
• February 3, 2012 A Profound and Prophetic Response
• February 2, 2012 Why "Stay-Home-Dad" and "Mr Mom" are Not the Same Thing
• February 1, 2012 Showing Up

January 2012

• January 18, 2012 Mistress of My Own Domain

December 2011

• December 23, 2011 Dreaming of a Green Christmas
• December 22, 2011 Who Comes This Night, Take 2!
• December 21, 2011 To Welcome in the Stranger
• December 20, 2011 Week 4: Welcome
• December 17, 2011 Ready: Week 3, Day 3
• December 15, 2011 Abundance: Week 3, day 2
• December 13, 2011 Week 3, Day 1: Dance it Out
• December 12, 2011 Week 3: The Beginnings of Joy
• December 11, 2011 Touch: Week 2, Day 5
• December 9, 2011 Be Still: Week 2, Day 4
• December 8, 2011 Smell: Week 2, Day 3
• December 7, 2011 Listen: Week 2, Day 2
• December 6, 2011 Breathe: Week 2, Day 1
• December 4, 2011 Camel Hair is the New Black
• December 3, 2011 Week 1, Day 5: Antici...pation
• December 2, 2011 Advent Week 1, Day 4
• December 1, 2011 This Little Light of Mine

November 2011

• November 30, 2011 There's an App For That...
• November 29, 2011 Advent Reflection: Week 1, Day 1
• November 23, 2011 And So We Wait...
• November 16, 2011 A Wait-less Wonder
• November 8, 2011 Between Here and There

October 2011

• October 30, 2011 A Sign and a Wonder
• October 27, 2011 It's All in There: Unmasking for Halloween
• October 17, 2011 A Moving Violation
• October 14, 2011 Girls Run the World
• October 12, 2011 Everyone Else
• October 6, 2011 Empty

September 2011

• September 27, 2011 Tell Me Why...
• September 23, 2011 Holy Aware
• September 22, 2011 Grace Anatomy
• September 12, 2011 Curiosity Killed the Monkey (or not...)
• September 10, 2011 Soul Seasons
• September 9, 2011 For Such a Time as This
• September 8, 2011 The Sacred Struggle
• September 7, 2011 Suck it Up
• September 1, 2011 A Cup of the Good Stuff

August 2011

• August 31, 2011 Bless This Mess (without the stress)
• August 30, 2011 Joyful Noise
• August 29, 2011 Unknown
• August 27, 2011 Saturday Night's Alright (just alright)
• August 26, 2011 You Can't Handle the Truth
• August 24, 2011 And Paul Thought Corinth Was Bad...
• August 23, 2011 Birth Order Bingo
• August 22, 2011 The Greatest Sweepstakes EVER
• August 20, 2011 Too Marvelous For Me
• August 19, 2011 Undeclared (The Real Freshman Rule Book)
• August 18, 2011 Real Housewives and Food Challenges
• August 16, 2011 How Fancy is That?
• August 12, 2011 "The Help:" Prophets Major and Minor
• August 11, 2011 A Little Bit Red...
• August 10, 2011 There is No One Like Our God
• August 9, 2011 Stop Making Me Look So Hot!
• August 8, 2011 Muffin Moment: A Mean Mom and Minister
• August 6, 2011 Best of Both Worlds
• August 5, 2011 Where You From?
• August 4, 2011 The Brown Marker
• August 3, 2011 Nice Enough

July 2011

• July 28, 2011 Going Anyway

June 2011

• June 29, 2011 Comfort Reading and Cooler Climes...
• June 20, 2011 Wherein I Decline to Support Cancer
• June 17, 2011 Do I Have Something in My Teeth?
• June 15, 2011 An Abundance of Sunshine
• June 8, 2011 Tomato, To-mah-to...
• June 3, 2011 A Glimpse of Things to Come
• June 2, 2011 Good Judgement (not an oxymoron)
• June 1, 2011 Half-Baked

May 2011

• May 31, 2011 The Gospel of Weaver's
• May 17, 2011 The New 60 Seconds
• May 14, 2011 Elsewhere
• May 13, 2011 The New Time Out

April 2011

• April 22, 2011 Gaga Gospel
• April 15, 2011 ...Like the Easter Bunny Threw Up in Here

February 2011

• February 19, 2011 Coffee Prayers
• February 18, 2011 Why Dr. Dobson is Not My Doctor (and now, neither is my doctor...)
• February 18, 2011 The Sacred Imperfect

July 2010

• July 29, 2010 Spirit Time
• July 23, 2010 Embodied

May 2010

• May 4, 2010 Carry-On Kids

April 2010

• April 16, 2010 Fixing Hair and Chasing Bears
• April 9, 2010 To Everything...
• April 2, 2010 What's So Good About It?

March 2010

• March 11, 2010 written in the sand
• March 10, 2010 Another Song About Grace
• March 3, 2010 Dis-what now?

January 2010

• January 14, 2010 Out of the Dust
• January 6, 2010 A Blank Page

December 2009

• December 16, 2009 The Old, Old Story
• December 8, 2009 An Air-Conditioned Arctic

November 2009

• November 25, 2009 Shopping for Good News
• November 21, 2009 In the Twilight
• November 10, 2009 New Fixtures
• November 4, 2009 Mutual Friends

October 2009

• October 21, 2009 Scoot Over
• October 14, 2009 Trash Day Discipleship
• October 8, 2009 Saving Space

September 2009

• September 28, 2009 Sacred Space

August 2009

• August 11, 2009 The New West