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January 10, 2021
Whose Flag Do You Carry?
The irony of all those Jesus flags in the midst of the chaos and destruction...
December 2020
December 20, 2020
Hard Candy Christmas: And Other Songs You Need This Year
If your old holiday standards aren't quite cutting it this year, there are others that...
December 09, 2020
Passing By
In these days that feel like the same day, spinning itself out over and over...
December 02, 2020
Peace, Love, Apocalypse
You'll hear a lot of religious extremists these days talking about the end times- God...
November 2020
November 29, 2020
Light, Enough
I am the laziest holiday decorator in the world. Christmas is the only season for...
September 2020
September 23, 2020
Racism Is The Emergency: News From Louisville
Racism is the real emergency. What if we truly addressed systemic racial injustice with the...
September 19, 2020
Sacred Dissent: The Legacy of RBG, and What Comes Next
Few people in the world have used their voice of dissent as effectively as she...
August 2020
August 15, 2020
How It’s Always Been
100 years from now/ they will sit in churches/ and worship in wide circles/wearing masks...
August 09, 2020
Church Deserts: And the Unique Opportunity of Online Community
A church desert is a place where your choices of worshipping community are limited. It's...
July 2020
July 16, 2020
The Privilege of Denial
There are some striking parallels between those who refuse to mask up, who call the...
July 12, 2020
Reclaiming the Language of Faith: Beyond Sound Bites To The Better Way of Jesus
When the church can't talk about poverty without somebody hollering "politics!" then our message has...
July 11, 2020
Economy or Empire? What We Build Next Starts With Schools
Yes, the economy truly does matter – but how we are defining that economy matters...
July 03, 2020
Wait For It: Is the Church Going to Be A Hamilton, Or A Burr?
"Hamilton" is a story that America needs to hear right now. It reminds us that...
June 2020
June 24, 2020
Preaching Out Loud: Why Everyone’s Talking About This Episode of Queer Eye, And What The Church Can Learn
There are reasons everybody is talking about this episode, and not just me and my...
June 08, 2020
Truth and Transformation: Can The Church Survive Confronting Racism?
As Americans, we have a choice in nearly everything. From where we live to what...
May 2020
May 31, 2020
Let It Burn
"You can't fan the flames and then condemn the fire." These were the words of...
May 23, 2020
Essential
Use the church as a pawn in political games? They would never! Well. If by 'never'...
May 10, 2020
What White Mothers Can Give To Black Mothers For Mother’s Day
I woke up this morning to cute little signs on my door, then followed a...
May 03, 2020
The Gospel Of Reading What We’ve Already Read Before
Yesterday, on what should have been Derby Day, the temp climbed above 80 degrees. Rather...
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,...
April 25, 2020
Without Casseroles and Crowded Churches: 10 Ways To Support The Grieving While Social Distancing
Guest Post: Rev. Selena Wright “Grief must be witnessed.*” One of the greatest gifts of...
April 14, 2020
Guts, Grit, and Empathy: Why We Need Women Leaders Right Now
Women make up 50.8% of the American population; but only 23% of the House and...
April 11, 2020
Let The Church Die: An Easter Manifesto
Here it is, Saturday. And here we sit, waiting to see if he's going to...
April 10, 2020
Into Your Hands
“Into your hands,” he says. “Into your hands I commit. Into your hands, I lay...
April 04, 2020
Quarantine Homeschooling? Here’s The One Thing Kids Need To Learn Right Now
The other day, my 9-year-old scientist was telling me all the ways this quarantine situation...
March 2020
March 31, 2020
This Pandemic Is A Test: But Maybe Not How You Think
If you'd told me a month ago that a pastor in America would be arrested...
March 26, 2020
Pandemic: We Are One Body
Depending upon where you live, your life may or may not have been altered dramatically...
March 13, 2020
Five Ways To Be The Church When Church Is Canceled
There are many unknowns here. There is unprecedented territory ahead, and nobody can say how...
March 10, 2020
Viral Fear Reveals The Worst Of Us: COVID-19 And Fear Of Scarcity
Like many of you, I'm troubled by many things right now. I'm not panicking-- I...
March 07, 2020
Do We Need A New Word For “Privilege?”
I'm getting weird deja vu as I start this post. Sometimes things I write sound...
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