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Feb
20
The Wordle of God for the People of God

The Wordle of God for the People of God

I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’ve got Amazon Prime two-day shipping. You can press a few buttons and, within two hours, have a week’s worth of groceries ready to pick up at your nearest Target. But sometimes resurrection isn’t like that.
10 min read
Feb
13
Like a Rock in Your Shoe

Like a Rock in Your Shoe

The hope of the resurrection is defiantly persistent — like a rock in your shoe. But y’all, for the love of God, keep walking.
10 min read
Feb
06
The World’s Largest Ball of Paint

The World’s Largest Ball of Paint

There's good news here — especially in our performance-driven, achievement-motivated culture. Because it gives us permission to not have it all figured out.
10 min read
Jan
25
Still

Still

Paul is saying that there is an interconnectedness and an interdependence inherent. And he does all of this by reminding the Corinthians that their social body has its grounding — its origin — in the broken, mutilated, weak, and crucified body of Jesus.
8 min read
Jan
16
Your Unicorn

Your Unicorn

When you offer your gifts for the common good, toward Beloved Community, Jesus shines through you. That’s the epiphany.
8 min read
Jan
13
Thursday Three • January 13, 2022

Thursday Three • January 13, 2022

Whether it’s kids or colleagues or friends or parishioners, I’m recognizing that I'm not always present, listening well, or seeing them in their fullness. So this week’s Thursday Three is about the work of friendship.
5 min read
Jan
09
Surface Pressure

Surface Pressure

Who am I if I don't have what it takes?
8 min read
Jan
06
The Thursday Three • January 6, 2022

The Thursday Three • January 6, 2022

I’ve spent the years following that night in Charlottesville working to become a student of Archbishop Tutu, and I was heartbroken to learn of his “transition” on December 26. So for this week’s Thursday Three, I’m sharing three of his teachings that have shaped my life.
6 min read
Jan
02
Home By Another Way

Home By Another Way

I'm inviting, I hope, a reframing that names the truth that God’s got us. That perhaps in ways we can’t see, the year that has been will be a gift from God to our future selves. That the flames of the dumpster fire might be purifying and refining.
10 min read
Dec
30
The Thursday Three • December 30, 2021

The Thursday Three • December 30, 2021

Like many of you, I suppose, I’ve spent this week taking stock of 2021 and looking ahead to 2022. For today’s Thursday Three, I’m sharing some words that have struck me and sustained me this year — words I hope to continue to carry with me into the new year ahead.
5 min read