Love Breaks Forth
Let us celebrate Epiphany not made bitter, but better, by the challenge of so many who lost their way to love.
The Sacred Work of White Discomfort
The minimization or denial of the Holocaust is prohibited, but the minimization and denial of America’s treatment of Native Americans and African Americans is mandated.
Heavy Burdens and Hope: A Review
Until now, learning how to discuss these Bible bullets with any confidence seemed overwhelming. But Bridget Eileen Rivera has done all the heavy lifting.
Finding Security as the World Is Upended: Reflections on Isaiah 26
They are willing to try trusting God without knowing exactly what this means. I want to too.
Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season
It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.
Christmas in the Borderlands
With a week in the borderlands behind us, I am processing, and I am grieving.
Mary’s Virginity Matters, but Not for the Reasons You Think
And so if we hold the virgin archetype up against Mary of Nazareth, we might be surprised by what we find. What if Mary’s virginity tells us not just about Jesus’ significance, but equally, about hers?
Protecting What We Have
And no force in human history would dare confront such an ingrained and manifested belief system. Except one did.
Can Theology Be an Idol?
One of my favorite classes in seminary was Christology. It was the systematic biblical study of the person of Jesus Christ (that’s a mouthful!). By co...
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.