We ask the wrong questions. All the time. Maybe it’s the former journalist in me, but I always yearn for us to ask better questions. Lest you think I get it right all the time, I promise you I’ve learned this…
With nearly all of our beloved rituals upended by the coronavirus, it’s easy to slip into self-pity and take what we do in the ritual more seriously than why we do it in the first place.
One of my goals lately has been to keep myself uncomfortable. For white people like me, it is far too easy to tune out the suffering caused by hundreds of years of enslavement, segregation, and mass incarceration of Black people in…
***** Upcoming events! ***** The ideas in this blog are indebted to a number of people of color who have been writing, thinking, speaking and teaching about anti-racism much longer than I have. Here are a few links and resources that…
The universe seems to be calling us to repent in the truest sense of the word — to turn around, to change, to do things very, very differently than we were before.
This post is the third in a series exploring the practice of Drishti (focus on a particular point, traditionally in meditation or yoga poses). In light of the extremely heated political and social debate occurring around the nomination and confirmation of…
I had just finished a morning run. Dripping with sweat and in desperate need of a shower, I noticed my phone ringing. Ivy Beckwith, my friend and colleague on the Faith Formation Team at the national UCC was calling. I was…
Below is a letter I emailed (in two parts due to the 2,500 character limit on the site) to President Trump this morning. Regardless of your political persuasion, how might we take reasonable steps to assist the Syrian people? I know people…
In my New Year’s post, I wrote about the need to lean into discomfort in 2017 as a way of traveling a journey of hope. After a two weeks of a Trump presidency and more civil and political unrest than I…
This blog is part of my ongoing series of reflections on how the Wild Goose Festival gave me a glimpse into the just what the new emerging Christian church is becoming. The steady bubbling of the French Broad River served as the soundtrack to…
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