Identifying Spiritual Abuse
Today, it is darkly comedic, the irony of this moment. At the time, it was crushing. Who was I to propose such a thing? Had I witnessed any of what I thought I’d witnessed?
On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
But this little plot of land, where my son swings from oak branches beside the bayou . . . where we make mashed potatoes for three instead of twenty-three . . . where I call home . . . is much more than just a settler's trophy. We live in Caddo territory, or so it was before the Treaty of Cession of 1835.
Wheat and Weeds: Thoughts on Cancel Culture
When it comes to systemic injustice, we must deconstruct, defund, demolish, dismantle now and with courage. But when it comes to people? We can’t destroy the wheat for the weeds before the harvest.
It’s Complicated: A Different Liturgy for Mother’s Day
You don't need me to tell you that Mother's Day is complicated for many. A two-second pause to contemplate the people in your life for whom the holiday might be painful would yield evidence enough that the day ...
The Strangest Lent
Easter is not a day in April as much as it is the moment that love wins, and no matter how long Lent lasts this year, resurrection is coming.
Lessons From the Fog (And This Pandemic)
"I couldn’t help but compare the grounded cloud around me to the world’s persisting and shared experience with the Coronavirus"
The Art of the Third Way
The kingdom of God is always on the other side of the fences we construct.
Who Carries the Vision?
Who will name what will lead us forward in the new narrative of faith?
How Being Unaffected Is a Sign of Privilege
Just because it is a matter that doesn’t matter to us, doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
Grieving Exclusion: A Liturgy of Lament
Help us be good to each other, as Christ was good to us.