well here’s a sincere email i received last week from my 14 year old niece. i got permission from her to share it on this blog so don’t feel like i’m violating some private conversation. i thought it was too important, telling, to just keep between her and i and if it helps challenge us a little, well, […]
Read Moreunbind her
i spent the past couple of days in downtown denver at a women’s event that some dear women i know put together called woman come forth. i run in weird diverse circles. i have my wild and crazy emerging friends, my conservative evangelical friends, my don’t-go-to-church-and-don’t-plan-to-anymore friends, my recovery friends, my eclecic refuge friends, my i-have-had-bad-experiences-with-christians-but-i-kind-of-like-you friends, […]
Read Moresurviving spiritual vertigo
this post is part of a synchroblog (a group of bloggers writing on the same topic at the same time. check out their links at the bottom of this post) put together by my blog-friend-on-the-journey glenn hager. the topic is called the revolutionaries synchroblog and you can read more about it here, but the basic […]
Read Morethe new ways are way harder
i am a “get-it-done” kind of person. a confessed striver, i really like to dream, build, create something from scratch, make things happen. not all of this is for the wrong reasons (as in feeding ego, making me feel valuable & validated…), but i am honest enough to say of course in weird wacky ways […]
Read Moreigniting the ember: emerging women finding their voice
“women have been taught that for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge” – author unknown i’ve discovered the world is round. i have survived my venture out (so far) and although it feels like i have fallen off the cliff, i have found there really is solid […]
Read Moreconspiring for change
conspire. i love this word. so many of us have probably always thought of this as a negative word-“conspiring against the authorities”…”conspiracy to overthrow the government”…”conspiracy to commit a crime.” but here’s a new twist on the word that i greatly appreciated: it’s roots come from the latin “conspirare” which means “to breathe together.” to […]
Read Morea time for burning
at the refuge’s february film & discussion night this past friday we watched a time for burning, a documentary shot in 1967 depicting conversations around a white lutheran’s pastor desire to organize a social gathering with a local african-american lutheran church in omaha, nebraska. here’s all he wanted to do: offer a reconciliatory gesture toward his african-american fellow lutherans […]
Read Morespringtime for a church
one of the things that is fun about life in blog-land is there are so many cool people out here, thinking new thoughts, digging deeper, longing for change in the kingdom, communicating their hearts in different ways. the random connections & ways that things get stirred up is always so wild to me. anyway, i wanted to […]
Read Morewhy i believe in co-pastoring
a few years ago i had never even heard of a co-pastor. i knew about senior pastors, i knew about associate pastors and childrens & youth pastors and some churches, if they had really big budgets, would have a care pastor. but during all my time in churches and ministry i never heard the word […]
Read Morethe new conspirators
i saw information on this conference a while back and was immediately intrigued. i loved the the idea of conspiring new ways of living out our faith, the thoughts of the conversations that people would be having there about so many things i highly value. i really wanted to try to pull off going but wasn’t sure if it was possible for […]
Read More