Non-Canonical Bible Studies: A Chance to Learn Together
It all started by questions provoked from the wisdom of Rachel Held Evans. For our 2021 Lenten book study I chose “Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving […]
“Targeting Gun Violence with Gun Buybacks”
I’m a bit of an outlier among my young female clergy colleagues. I’m a gun owner and a hunter— I use my guns exclusively for hunting wild game. As a […]
Bind Us Together
I’ve almost finished my first year as senior pastor at a church that is unlike any other I’ve had the privilege to be a part of. Our vision statement is […]
Go Team: Christ, Community, and Conference Planning
“What does it mean to embody ministry? To be the physical body of Christ in the world? How is it with your soul?” These are just a few of the question posed […]
Untethered but Anchored
A year and a half ago, I left my full-time congregational ministry setting to take an intentional year off from full-time congregational ministry. I had been ordained a decade, serving […]
A Place at the Table: Thinking Theologically about Hunger and Poverty
Here in rural Illinois where I live, the leaves on the trees are starting to change—red, orange, and yellow gracing our streets and college campus green spaces. Alongside the color, […]
Growing Good Soil in Ministry
“Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”-Matthew 13:8 (NIV) The farmers in front of me dreamed of […]
Fear Not: A Letter to a Young Clergy Woman
Dear Friend, I was recently thinking back to my third date with Daniel. He reached across the table for my hand and asked, “What would you do with your life […]
A Young Christian Woman and a Young Muslim Woman Walk into a Cafe
A young Christian woman and a young Muslim woman walk into a cafe…no, this isn’t the beginning of a joke. Interfaith jokes rarely include women – in fact even more […]
In Praise of the Ambush Wedding
In my experience, one ambush wedding begets another, as well it should. Once engaged couples see evidence of a “third way,” between eloping and a full-blown wedding and reception, the […]
