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  • Justice Prayers - January 30

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Utility Company Filing for Bankruptcy Due to Climate Change...
    February 1, 2019
  • Dear Church, Refuse to be in Denial

    Dear Church, I write to you to admit that I am a recovering racist, working to overcome the lies ingrained in me by white supremacy and a racialized society. I share this to be transparent with you...
    January 25, 2019
  • MLK: A Christmas Sermon on Peace and Non-violence

    “This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is...
    December 24, 2018
  • A Prayer for the Arrival(s)

    Advent: Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin adventus, going back to Latin, "arrival, appearance" Refugee claimants (people who have fled their countries of origin to make a refugee claim, and...
    December 3, 2018
  • To the Woman I Saw Walking to the Highway

    A reflection for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: I saw you first walking out of the hotel parking lot to the highway You had your purse with you and a commitment to go as you zippered...
    November 13, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...
    October 19, 2018
  • Confronting My Silence

    I wish I had taken a vow of silence. But I haven’t. Far from any overtly noble rationale, I simply went quiet. For the past 11 months, I’ve hardly done any writing, I’ve only read two books, and I’ve...
    July 16, 2018
  • Does Social Justice Contribute to Church Decline?

    S. F. Moore, E.T. Bethell, and J.S. Gale are not the names of trivia questions in the history of world Christianity game board. And yet their ordinary well-manicured graves, along with 145 other...
    May 21, 2018
  • How did Lent Shape Me?

    This year for Lent I was thinking about something a friend of mine, Karen Wilk, had been talking about in the lead up to Lent. She noted that often people give things up in order to focus more on God...
    May 4, 2018
  • Missing out on God Moments

    One spring I participated in a two and a half day silent retreat where I picked up two books by Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet and The Jesus Creed. In my reading and reflection times, I learned some...
    April 9, 2018