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When Love Blurs

I know we’re not supposed to have favorites, but let me tell you about my favorite. I met her ten years ago. Her brother was an active member of our […]

Hearing and Being Heard: A Pastoral Response to Orlando

The Orlando shootings are not about me. Let’s start with that. I’m white, heterosexual (attracted to people of the opposite gender), and cisgendered (my internal gender identity matches the physical […]

The Pastor Is Political: “How can you live here?”

We had friends stay with us for the first time this summer. Mostly, it was a good visit. Our children are about the same ages, and get along as well […]

Keep Calm and Carry on with Hope

A little over a month ago a man named Thomas Eric Duncan was getting ready to leave Liberia for Dallas, Texas. Prior to departing he helped a neighbor get a […]

Love Thy Neighbor

My seminary boyfriend broke up with me just a few days before I was supposed to go house-hunting. It was my senior year, and I had just accepted an exciting […]