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March 2015

March 10, 2015
Welcome to Part 2 in our series in which curriculum writers discuss their approach to...
March 10, 2015
It was a rough week at work. It got off to a bad start and...
March 06, 2015
The recent passing of Leonard Nimoy has got many of us reminiscing about his portrayal...
March 04, 2015
“God is in control.” The statement comforts many people because deep down we know that...

February 2015

February 27, 2015
I’m cringing as I write this. That tells you a lot about me. When it...
February 26, 2015
The Compline, or Night Prayer, is the last prayer said as part of the Liturgy...
February 23, 2015
During Lent we are inviting curriculum writers to tell us how their curriculum for children...
February 20, 2015
The Christian journey of Lent is upon us. Lent commemorates Jesus’ journey into the wilderness....
February 19, 2015
“You may not know what this means because you don’t live in North Carolina” my...
February 17, 2015
For my Lenten discipline this year, I’ve decided to become more comfortable with death. To...
February 16, 2015
Like many children growing up in the US, I had dreams of becoming the president....
February 14, 2015
It’s been a few days since the tragic murder of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill,...
February 13, 2015
I’d like to end my series on the obstacles to love with a few last...
February 12, 2015
My inner feminist recoils when I hear the term “Son of God.” I get the...
February 11, 2015
In my book, “The Wicked Truth About Love: The Tangles of Desire”, I identified 5...
February 10, 2015
Ahh, we love drama, don’t we? Okay, maybe you don’t, but this year’s Grammys didn’t...
February 09, 2015
In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 in my series we’ve been looking at...
February 07, 2015
“That was a total buzzkill.” The Nationwide commercial just finished. Entitled, “Make Safe Happen,” it...
February 06, 2015
Thanks for joining me for part 3 of my series identifying stumbling blocks on the...
February 05, 2015
As a Seattle Seahawks fan, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I hate Tom...
February 04, 2015
Welcome to Part 2 of my series on romantic pitfalls, what I call the “tangles...
February 03, 2015
Criticism. It’s an ugly word. Just reading it there makes me cringe. And there’s so...
February 02, 2015
  As we approach Valentine’s Day I thought it would be a good time to...

January 2015

January 29, 2015
I began my second unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) yesterday.  CPE is basically a...
January 28, 2015
I loved Paddington, the new movie based on the Michael Bonds books about an immigrant...
January 27, 2015
Marcus Borg, a bestselling author and prominent Jesus scholar, died last week. I read the...
January 23, 2015
Ask anyone to tell you about the Holy Spirit and you will likely receive blank...
January 22, 2015
After watching Selma, I had a weird feeling that the filmmakers thought they were making...
January 21, 2015
Theology comes from two Greek words. Theos, meaning God, and logos, meaning word or reason....
January 19, 2015
  John McCain recently held a press conference where he speculated on a third Mitt...
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