Book Review: I’m Black. I’m Christian. I’m Methodist
Tori C. Butler is Black. She’s Young. She is a Woman. And She’s Grieved. This is the title to her chapter in a book edited by Rudy Rasmus called I’m […]
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Book Review: Sacred Balance: How Ancient Practices Can Restore Modern Minds
As many books as I have read about spiritual formation, I found Miriam Diephouse-McMillan offers something unique and deeply needed in Sacred Balance: How Ancient Practices Can Restore Modern Minds. Though […]
Encountering Truth, Encountering Liberation: A Review of This Here Flesh and Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley
While I was drowning in grief, I wondered aloud to a friend what kind of pastor and activist I could have been if I weren’t in so much pain. She […]
Book Review: For the Love of Triumph
In Jullia’s current call, she has a cohort of five women in her Presbytery all serving in different ministry contexts. They are her people- people who call each other when […]
Book Review: God is a Black Woman
When I was a child, growing up in a conservative, predominately white church, I was taught that God was beyond gender or somehow included both male and female within Him. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
