Mar 18, 2013 | church, Lent, nature, prayer
Strengthen your Church, O Christ, to be a stalwart network of roots so that the spirit of our living blooms with broad shade trees for the weary and rich fruit vineyards for the hungry. Let us welcome the birds in their nests to share a vision of the landscape, and...
Dec 18, 2012 | Advent, church, faith, prayer
And still you are here, despite our sins and our doubts and our failures and our general human ridiculousness. Still you are here, appearing in gentle mercies to the hospitalized and the lonely, coming in simple laughter to the worried and the tired, manifesting in...
Dec 6, 2012 | Advent, church, women
“Ah, Advent! Along with Christmas, Advent is the glorious and only time of year when Christians across the theological spectrum can agree on women’s participation in God’s work.” Read my full blogpost on The Huffington Post.
Oct 15, 2012 | church, images of God, lament
I’m tired of reading bad ordination papers: twelve to twenty pages of poorly-written, theologically-thin, unimaginative discourse, intended to represent a ministerial candidate’s breadth of preparedness and depth of spiritual formation but more frequently...
Oct 5, 2012 | church, communion, healing, prayer, scripture, sermon
Before we read Mark 9:38-50, let’s reflect on this reading from James: “Are any among you suffering? You should pray. Are any cheerful? You should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? You should gather with the elders and pray over them. The...
Sep 27, 2012 | church, grace, ministry, sermon
I want to be great. I want to be great at everything I do, and I give myself a hard time for not being brilliantly excellent 100% of the time — as a pastor, a preacher, a mother, a writer. I long to be stellar … and not just to be stellar, but to be known...
