Fandom Religion
Sometime during the catastrophe that was 2020, my husband told me there was a new show we could watch. An American football coach goes to England to coach a professional […]
Peace is a Practice (Book Review)
In her book Peace is a Practice, artist and musician Morgan Harper Nichols posits that finding peace is not finding a state of being but rather joining a river flowing […]
Romance as a Post-Pandemic Spiritual Practice
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.- -Proverbs 13:12 While listening to the pilot episode of the podcast “Hot and Bothered,” I […]
What Is Love?: A Review of All About Love by bell hooks
Author and cultural critic bell hooks has recently made the news because she has been listed as one of the authors whose work Governor DeSantis cites as problematic for students. […]
The Chosen: A Jesus Show Worth Watching
Until I saw The Chosen, the only shows or movies I had seen featuring Jesus were in one of three categories: boring, educational, or satirical (remember this vintage 21 video? […]
My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir Book Review
Sometimes I feel out of place in my denomination. I’m an ordained Episcopal priest living on the East Coast in a liberal area, but I was raised Baptist in the […]
Harry Potter as a Sacred Text
For the past several months, I have gathered every Monday with three other chaplains at a state psychiatric hospital in Trenton, New Jersey, to read Harry Potter as if […]
Review No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
“Someday we won’t need hope. Someday we don’t need courage. Time itself will be wrapped up with a bow, and God will draw us all into the eternal moment where […]
Book Review: Blessed Union
It is the season of love. The stores are filled with candy hearts, blossoms are starting to appear on trees (at least here in Texas!), and marriage is on the […]
Winter Reading Suggestions from Young Clergywomen
Do you love curling up under blankets with a pile of books in the winter? Have you found more time to read – or needed to make time for your […]
