Ten Books to Read about Preaching
For the next installment in my Ten Books series, I’ve compiled a list of books to check out on preaching. Again, I have not read all of the books recommended, […]
Ten Books to Read in Your First Five Years of Ministry
First, take a break! You finally finished seminary, and I’m sure that you’ve got a lot of good learning under your belt. Use what you’ve got already and take some […]
Home as a Sacred Space
When I think about self-care, I think about the things that I do: activities, how I spend my time, spiritual practices, how I deal with stress. Recently I have been […]
Pastors are People Too: A Review of Welcome to Triumph
Have you ever gone to the grocery store wearing pajama bottoms, a tank top, with your hair a mess and run into a parishioner? Or worse a member of your […]
Book Review: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
I started Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande two years ago, as the world still reeled from Covid-19. I was preparing for the Lenten […]
Reading Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology by Mihee Kim-Kort A Decade Later
As I was reading Making Paper Cranes by Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort, I found myself feeling simultaneously exposed and held by her analysis and critique of the “both and” world that […]
Follow the Love: In The Neighborhood of Normal Book Review
Earlier this summer, inside my Consecrate Box (a ministry subscription service for women in ministry), I received a discount code for the book In the Neighborhood of Normal* by Cindy Maddox. […]
Emily Rose, The Wailing, and Belief
From connecting with pastors over the years, I’ve discovered that there are a number of them out there who adore horror. While I haven’t been able to nail down a […]
Book Review: Rest is Resistance
Tricia Hersey didn’t discover rest as resistance when she had the time or the money to rest. She began resting as resistance in the midst of one of the busiest […]
Barbie: A Goddess Travels to the Underworld and the Necessity of Divine Paradox
Venus figurines are among the oldest pieces of art humans have created. Through them we can see that there is an ancient relationship between figurines and the elevation of some […]
