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. […]
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The Divine Waggle
At 20 months and 2 days old, my son extended his hand towards his sister, and waggled his fingers back and forth. It was his first ever unprompted wave. As […]
What Language Shall I Borrow?
I can still feel a bit of burning embarrassment from the conversation that happened nearly 12 years ago. My dad, a pastor and theologian, helped me pack up and move […]
Holiness Hotspots
On a beautiful July evening this summer, I ate dinner at a little table out my back door. In the glorious, long-lived light of summer evenings, my eye caught a […]
To Be Separate or Not: That Is the Question
God and the world. Sometimes, I think we think of them as two different things. Sometimes we can think of faith, and the presence of God, as something that happens […]
Death and New Life
On February 26, 2010, my brother Cameron died of an overdose of heroin. I was in the middle of my first year of graduate studies for my Master of Divinity […]
In Need of God by Sharon Benton
Sharon Benton wrote the following note to us back in March: I’m in the process of trying to write a sabbatical grant focused on interweaving the sacred feminine (God the […]
