Ruminating on this…
I was at a think-tank of sorts the past two days with some fun people gathered together to discuss how to love mercy and do justice within our church body. There were several great thoughts shared and...
View Article“The life that billows forth…”
Go to [the Bible] with an eye only for error and contradiction, grammatical anomalies, historical errors, mistaken data and numbers, and the Bible is big enough for a scholarship only of those things....
View ArticleLent: Repent, or Work Resting
“Repentance is deciding that you have been wrong in supposing that you could manage your own life and be your own god; it is deciding that you were wrong in thinking that you had, or could get, the...
View ArticleHistory as Sacred Ground
I’ve been reading, listening to, and researching a lot of stories this last year. I am working with our regional office to prepare for our 125th Anniversary Celebration at the end of April, and much of...
View ArticleLosing is Good News ?!?
I preached this past weekend on the Matthew lesson from the lectionary that our church has been working through. There were many reflections and interesting thoughts that I found while researching and...
View ArticleCall to Arms – Arm in Arm – After Ferguson
Christians – especially those of you who are white, asian-american, in my particular church family, my wider church family, or all those who are often in a position of protection and relative privilege...
View ArticleOne Body: White Christians, Time to Get in the Game
(Grateful to have this piece also shared on sojo.net and eugenecho.com) I am grieving and lamenting and beyond angry over … Continue Reading →
View ArticleFaith is Always Political: Sometimes-Pastoral Reflections on Election Season
“I don’t think this space should be political,” she posted to the Facebook group for pastors and worship leaders. “Maybe … Continue Reading →
View ArticleFaith and Race and Politics – Matter
The Republican Convention that started this week is angering and concerning me to a new level. I’m currently on sabbatical, … Continue Reading →
View ArticleAdvent, Hope, & Politics
Advent is my favorite season of the year. It’s the music that is always playing, the dark nights with candles … Continue Reading →
View ArticleA Good Friday Liturgy: Forgiven
This year for our Good Friday Service we are focusing on three of the last seven words of Christ - "Forgiven," "Forsaken," and "Finished" - and share a Scripture Reading corresponding to each of the...
View ArticleThe White Church’s Trouble
If you read one article today, it should be this one by Campbell Robertson. It's an incisive and narrative account of why Black Christians are leaving evangelicalism since the 2016 Elections, and I...
View ArticleTo Belong
To belong is to be made lovely to collect together to call to craft to create a something a story a self to bring all of it to the surface to see it to name it to give thanks for it to say it is good....
View ArticleWhite Work – and White Women – After Minneapolis
White folks – and white women - we have some particular work to do in this season. As Minneapolis burns in more ways than one, we should choose to see the whole story that is at work. We have to see,...
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