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 honestly can’t remember the last time I had been moved to tears during a Sunday worship. It happened at Washington Park UCC.
You don’t have to be a superhero — lead a protest movement, run for elected office, be an elite athlete or movie star — to change the world. You just have to live as if the change has already happened.
Family ministry can and will change the world. One Family at A Time. Maybe it will even prevent the racial violence that tore Michael Brown’s family apart.
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…
I don’t care one iota what your family looks like ... YOUR family bears the blessing and responsibility for passing on faith to the next generation.
This is part of my Listening in Lent series in which I reflect on my experience of practicing listening during this holy season. It started with my hip. That may seem like a weird thing to listen to. Other than the…
Although I rarely got in trouble in school as a kid, the few detentions I did get in high school were for talking too much in study hall. After that, my mother always made me take an extra book to read…
Following the Light is a series of blogs that point to the brights spots where I see renewal and rebirth in the world of religion and spirituality. The series will continue through the Christian season of Epiphany. I distinctly remember reading the…
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