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Advent: Watching and Waiting For God

Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy

A Thanksgiving Liturgy: Before A Meal

The Church Needs Women’s Lofty Dreams

Single in the Church: How Church Practices Are Including or Excluding Single Adults

Embodied Spiritual Formation for the Mothering Pastor

Hungry People and Full People

Holding Vigil: Beneath a Binary Perspective on the Israeli War in Gaza

Empty Nest: How a Ritual Helps Us Process the Losses and Gains of Our Kids Leaving Home

Disrupting Legacies of White Supremacy in the Church

When We Are a House Divided

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

The Speed of Love

The Sterility of the Empty Cross

Nine Lessons For Christian Leaders (Who Also Happen To Be Female)

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

Loneliness is the Penalty for Women Leaders

Finding Rest Amidst the Days of Labor

Metanoia: Wholehearted Change in Unprecedented Times

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today (‘I Have A Dream’ 60th Anniversary Version)

Negotiating Difference (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 3)

Interrogating ‘Tough Guy’ Masculinity

The American Church: Has God Left The Building?

Why Go to Seminary?

‘Holisticostal Mission:’ Paradigm Shifts in Theology and Practice (Pt. 2)

‘Holisticostal Mission:’ Paradigm Shifts in Theology and Practice (Pt. 1)

The Gift Underneath Our Wrinkles: Is Aging Actually A Grace?

Excessive Spirituality (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 2)

Surprised by God at Tables: Extending the Eucharist Into the Neighborhood (Pt. 2)

Surprised by God at Tables: On The Eucharist as Mission (Pt. 1)

To Grow Nature Is To Encourage More Of It

Attending to God’s Presence While Watching My Garden

God Finds Us In Nature: An Environment of Healing (Pt. 2)

God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)

The Spiritual Practice of Summer

How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend

Origin Stories Matter: On Juneteenth

When a Day Off Isn’t Enough: Sabbatical Rest Sustains Pastoral Health for the Long-Haul

The Three Waves Metaphor: How Culture Shapes the Way We Work for Justice

Searching for a Robust Spirituality in a Doomscrolling World (Hopeful Realism, Pt. 1)

Emotions Signpost our Humanity in a Helpful Way

Dr. King Shines a Light Forward for Justice Work Today

Pentecost DNA Forms Border-Crossing Christians

Five Ways Deconstruction Can Deepen Faith Without Devolving into Demolition

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 2)

The Least of These: Reflections on Learning to Practice a Faith Without Margins

Tamar: The Righteous Prostitute (Part 1)

In Search of a Spiritual Practice for Losing Mothers

Is Spiritual Formation Biblical?

The Sights & Sounds of Awakenings 2023

Disruption Doesn’t Have The Last Word; New Life Does

Developing an Imitation-Based Framework of Healthy Leadership in Christ (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part III)

Fallen Leaders Pursue the Imitation of Powers for Their Own Agenda (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part II)

The Rush of a Crowd: A Root Issue in Domineering Leaders (‘The Scandal of Leadership,’ Part I)

On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’

Recent Developments in the CRT Culture Wars

Spiritual Formation as the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge

The Radical Practice of Christian Hospitality

Returning Home: Finding Ourselves in the Story of the Prodigals
