Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian calendar on the road toward Easter. I know it’s a hard season for a lot of faith shifting folks, and I’ve written so much already over the years that there’s no need to re-create the wheel; you can always use my blog search […]
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Today is International Women’s Day 2019. I didn’t have time to write something new but I made some tweaks to this one from a few years ago. We rise together. Today I’m always reminded how grateful I am for the strong, amazing, beautiful, vulnerable, wise, compassionate, humble, tenacious, resilient, courageous women I know. I’m also […]
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Toxic [tox-sik] Adjective 1. of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison. 2. acting as or having the effect of a poison; poisonous. 3. causing unpleasant feelings; harmful or malicious. dictionary.com These past few weeks we learned of over 700 cases of sexual assault and abuse covered up by leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention in different ways through the years. These were only the reported ones and we all know how […]
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I’m writing a new book! This week, in the midst of our celebrating launching all our kids adventure, I signed a contract with Westminster John Knox Press to publish Practicing: Be the Change You Want to See in the World (working title)! I am so excited about this project and to work with WJK on it […]
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January 2019 marks a significant anniversary for me—15 straights years of pastoring. 15! I had been doing pastoral-y things for a chunk of years before but one of my most significant life shifts came when I went on a big church staff January 1st2004 first as the Associate Care Pastor and Adult Ministry Pastor. Two+ years later […]
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If you saw the movie We’re the Millers you might remember the scene of the kid who has a big tattoo across this neck that says “No Ragrets” in capital letters. He said it was his credo, and when asked if he had any regrets, he replied, “Nope, not at all.” “Not even one?” the […]
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Today is Christmas Eve, the night we celebrate Jesus’ arrival into the world, God in-the-flesh, born to simple people in a dirty stall in a time where political authority prevailed and rigid theological constructs kept people in bondage. A time like today. Over the millennia, very little has changed about this same basic story. Power […]
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I’m back. Sort of. It’s a wild time of year and not much time to write but I hope you checked out Mark Charles’ video and some of the other resources from the last post here. We are in full swing of Advent and end-of-year stuff at The Refuge and this week several of our college […]
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I spent last week in North Carolina for some special events in several different communities (a few pictures and stories are on Facebook and Instagram and then speaking about Faith Shift and relationships at the Evolving Faith Conference, hosted by Rachel Held Evans and Sarah Bessey. It was an honor to be part of such an incredible […]
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Years ago when I was writing Faith Shift (which is now 4 years old, how did time go that fast?!) we tossed around the idea of “Faith Evolution” as one of the possible titles. I am glad we landed on “shift” in the end for some different reasons but appreciate that we incorporated “evolution” into the drawing […]
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