“Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ve been thinking about the question Diana posed last week – why is there so much talk about obedience? I was always taught an obedience that…
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Faithful Slaves and Fugitive Whites – How Do You Remember the Past?
Today is Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. I find this whole ‘war in my backyard’ thing fascinating, but also kind of disturbing. I don’t know how to reconcile the fact that today is a day to honor Confederate generals, while Monday is to honor a civil rights leader. So, I did what any normal person would…
Welcoming the Gentiles
The mountain of the Lord and the house of God shall be visible…All the Gentiles shall come to it…..He will proclaim His way to us, and we shall walk in it….They shall beat their swords into plows and their spears into pruning hooks….neither shall they learn war anymore….come and let us walk in the light…
So That One Time, the Philistines Were Kind of Good
A Wounded, Secret Jesus Feminist
“The cracks were ricocheting and multiplying across my heart now, and when I turned to the Church for answers, I did not feel my questions were welcome.” – Jesus Feminist How do you not stay bitter? How do you let go of the anger, the hurts, the soul-deep wounds Christians have inflicted? Lean into the…
And Now, A Story
We Moved 850 Miles to Find Life
We’ll build new traditions in place of the old ’cause life without revision will silence our souls -Sleeping At Last The tall ceilings and golden wood floors call to me. It’s a southern brick house with columned front porch, bedrooms in the attic, and transomed windows. The kind of house that we’ve always…
When On-Fire Ends in Embers
Though it pales in comparison To the overarching shadows, A speck of light can reignite the sun And swallow darkness whole. – Sleeping At Last He said “ Many of those stories highlight the bad parts of growing up evangelical.” And he’s right. My best memories and most formative moments happened over 9 summers…
We Wanted the Fire to Be Popular
God Has A Plan, and Other Useless Advice
He interviewed for a job today. An interview we thought about turning down. Because the salary turned out to be much lower than the advertised amount. But how do you turn down what you need? So we crunched the numbers, and surprise, surprise, realized we could live on less than we thought. We could…