i will never know what it’s like to be a person of color. i can only listen and learn from my friends & family who are. i will never know what it’s like to be gay. i can only listen and learn from my friends & family who are. i will likely never know what […]
Read Moreout of the darkness: singleness & the church, part 2
i did a series of conversations in 2009 and 2010 called out of the darkness. it had honest stories from my friends on topics that often never get talked about in church. if you didn’t read them, here they are: self-injury brave thoughts from a former abuser hope & healing from sexual addiction the lingering […]
Read Morefreedom.
“the spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day […]
Read Moredreamers, lovers, and status-quo rockers
this post is part of the july synchroblog – a bunch of bloggers writing on the same topic. this month is centered on the wild goose festival, a justice-arts-spirituality festival held the last week of june in north carolina. some of us weren’t able to make it to the festival (i would have loved to […]
Read Morewhen crazy is actually sane & sane is actually crazy
one of my favorite gospel stories is the woman who busts into simon the pharisee’s house in luke 7 and falls at Jesus’ feet, wiping his feet with her tears. in that moment, he was hanging out with the put-together, religious elite talking about theology. they were supposedly the sane ones, and she was the […]
Read Morethe beauty of an advocate
a lot of you know that my husband, jose, went to law school about 6 years ago to become a pro-bono lawyer on behalf of women. it’s a really fun story that started when he began volunteering at a domestic violence shelter helping women move out of scary situations. we are grateful that he has […]
Read Moredaddy love
every sunday night we go over to my mom’s for dinner. it all started a few years ago when the refuge used to meet on sunday nights; when she’d come i’d give her $20 to take the kids to mcdonald’s on the way home for me. she hates fast food and after a few weeks […]
Read Moreascent vs. descent
last wednesday at our house of refuge we kicked off our summer journeying through down we go: living into the wild ways of Jesus. at first i wasn’t really excited about the reality that it won the vote (the group decided together what to do for the summer), but after the idea settled in i […]
Read Moreradio ramblings
yesterday i had the privilege of being part of doug pagitt’s sunday radio show to talk about down we go. it was fun. don’t laugh too hard at the end when i’m talking mid-sentence and that’s the end. it’s the first part of hour 2, about 20 minutes long, the same amount of time it […]
Read Moremore than the leftovers
yesterday was the june synchroblog focused on faith, feasts & foreshadowing & the connections between the jewish celebration of shavout & the christian celebration of pentecost. there are some really good posts, check out the links below. i have had a nutty week and didn’t think i was going to participate and then yesterday, as […]
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