This blog is written for my occasional series, “Things Yoga Has Taught Me About Church.” You make friends fast when you line up at dawn in your spandex triathlon gear on a gorgeous, but chilly, Sunday summer morning. Having the unfortunate…
I got angry. While attending the Faith Forward Gathering a few weeks ago, Dr. Daniel White Hodge, Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry at North Park University, recounted a recent experience he had in which he had been pulled over by police. Although…
I was really late to the party. The ability to binge watch TV encourages me. I can always start a series later, so shows tend to stack up like a giant pile of laundry in my queue. Doctor Who was one…
So even if you're not a Christian nor a believer of any kind, I wish that you, too, experience unexpected and unbridled joy today.
.... I will be able to do so many things I love to do — “connecting people with people, need with resources, and hope with opportunity”
I think the creepiness of the season is kind of the point. Lent should make us uncomfortable. It should remind us of death, of the ways in which we wrong one another, our communities and our planet. Lent should humble us…
Let’s just admit it: Race does matter. We (white people) benefit from it. All of us, regardless of how enlightened our upbringing may have been, are formed in a world in which we are taught to take advantage of the subjugation…
I honestly can’t remember the last time I had been moved to tears during a Sunday worship. It happened at Washington Park UCC.
In a fragmented, fast-paced world people need a community where “your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” (Ruth 1: 16) A community defined not by social constructs, but by people who are devoted to each other and…
Friends inundated my Facebook feed with news of Ariyana Smith’s protest at a Knox College basketball game on Nov. 29, 2014. Since then, news of the college’s reaction to her protest have made their way into my email inbox. You may…
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