Marching for our Lives: Called and Named
Looking younger than her eleven years, Naomi Wadler stepped up to the microphone to address more than half a million gathered in Washington, DC. She recalled how she and a […]
Lament in a Purple Church
Increasingly, I look around at the state of the world and my response is to lament. My heart breaks at all the violence and injustice. In my ministry, I oversee […]
Lessons We Can Learn from Wakanda
My flight has safely landed back into town after visiting Wakanda – the mythical and majestic homeland revealed in the film Black Panther – a journey that left me mesmerized. […]
Godless Politicians Can Save Their Thoughts and Prayers
If that title sounds cranky, it’s because it is. I am. I’m fed up. I’m fed up with mass shootings, and I’m fed up with the political inaction that inevitably […]
Making a Life from a Living in a Rural Church
They will invite you to live with them, really live with them. Do, if you can. You will learn, in time, a spirituality with a little give to it. How […]
How Playing Princess Made Me a More Perfect Pastor
We all joke about what we didn’t learn in seminary, but in my case, plenty of people joke about what I did learn. While I was in seminary, I learned […]
“I just don’t know how you do it all…”
“For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually […]
Fungibility: A Vocabulary Lesson for White People
The nerd force has always been strong with me. When other kids were competing in sports events over the weekends, I was competing in storytelling contests to see who could […]
Sabbath, Rest, and the Voices Inside My Head
“Would you ever consider doing something like this?” I asked. I was sitting with my friend Jeff in the balcony seats of the Wilbur Theater in Boston. “Nooo!” he replied. […]
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