The need for meaning-making storytellers is more vital than ever. We need films, visual art, poetry, music, sermons and dance to help us process the stress of the times and transform it into meaningful change. We need communities who can foster…
This past year has been particularly heavy with loss. ... We will spend the rest of our lifetimes forming our personal and collective narratives around the events of this past year.
Blame it on being a Generation Xer. In the 80s, we were among the first to have cable TV. And, I, having grown up in Omaha, Nebraska — a test market because of its Midwest “normality” — got access to…
What if we approached change as a process of becoming more of who we ARE rather than LOSING who we used to be?
My lesson from The Good Place is that a healthy, creative team must honor and respect all the ideas in the room. That doesn’t mean they all get selected, or even that all the ideas are good. That’s just not realistic.…
I suspect now that my love of awards shows goes well beyond the need for some glamour and sparkle in the dead of the Midwest winter. It’s really about the love of story.
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…
In this season of Advent waiting, I’m not going to sit idly by and wait for Jesus to come again. I’m going to live into his vision of Kin-dom that breaks down these systems of oppression through the power of relationships.…
Daily, regular practice of our faith in our homes gives us safe space to test out the countercultural ways Jesus’ shows us. Daily, regular practice inspires the realization that we can no longer spend our money on products that exploit child…
Confession time: I never went to church camp. Unlike many, many of my Protestant sisters and brothers, (I was raised Roman Catholic.) I have no frame of reference for that quintessential summer experience that inspires as many conversions as it does hook-ups.…
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