Wordless
Wordless For Anneliese and Luke I am a pray-er and writer a speaker and singer I am a word weaver and warrior but you have taken my words away. […]
The Twilight of Easter
One of the most complicated aspects of losing Lily has been proclaiming Good News in the midst of resounding darkness. In my anxiety over preaching on Easter, a Young Clergy […]
The Story Bible That Made Me Cry: A Review of Growing in God’s Love: A Story Bible
Confession – I’m a pastor, but I’m not great about reading the Bible with my kids. Maybe it’s because it feels a little bit like work. Maybe it’s because I’m […]
Emergency! …But Whose?
“Doesn’t it suck,” my colleague commented to me, “when people call us in a panic because they didn’t read their email from weeks ago and now they want us to […]
Ask a Young Clergy Woman: Working With Potential Partners With Theological Differences
Dear Askie, As a Young Clergy Woman who serves a mostly-progressive Christian congregation, I find myself constantly frustrated by requests for collaboration or rental of our building space from more […]
Fight, Flight, or…What?
My latte is mostly gone. I’ve done as much work as I can do at the coffee shop. I look at my day planner as I prepare to head to […]
Homegrown Terror: A Review of Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ When They Call You a Terrorist (a Black Lives Matter Memoir)
When I think of my own childhood, I remember playing barefooted in the backyard with my sisters. I remember planting pumpkin seeds beneath our jungle gym, that eventually grew into […]
The Darkness Shines in the Light
White privilege is marked by blindness to the ways our language hurts and harms others. The process of learning to see is, like the story in John’s gospel of Jesus’ […]
Why We Need More than a Framework of Rights in the Struggle for Justice
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated my home island of Puerto Rico. In less than 24 hours, over 3 million people lost access to running water, electricity and telecommunications. […]
The Need for Spiritual Agility
My middle school tennis coach used to arrange the balls in a small pile at the center of each half-court on occasion. As soon as we approached the courts, we […]
