How I Work: Look Up Bible Passages with These Shortcuts
I’m always looking for ways to make my workflows easier and more efficient. As a pastor, I work a
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Holding It All Together
In our vulnerability, we meet God in Christ who weeps, isn't above our grief, but carries it through the cross, redeeming us. Like a Mother Hen, God gathers us beneath her wings with steadfast love.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Planning and Deadlines
This is what Jesus is asking. This is what it looks like to fast from planning and deadlines. Jesus is asking us to let go, to take a beat, to open our hands filled with chess pieces, and to repent from our need to plan our way to our desired end because God has something better in store.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Scarcity Anxiety
The only reason I jumped into the pool as a kid was because my Aunt Laura was there with arms open, ready to catch me.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Multitasking and Inattention
If you've ever scrolled Instagram at a stoplight, played Royal Match in class, browsed the headlines at the dinner table, checked your email during a Zoom call, or made your grocery list during a sermon, this is for you.
Fast: Practices for a Slow Lent and a Spacious Life // Fasting from Consumption
Do we each really need our own lawnmowers?
Wonder
“Earth’s crammed with heaven,” the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote. “And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes…”
From Generation to Generation: We Can Choose a Better Way
But think of those moments in your own life that take your breath away. That restore your faith in humanity, however briefly—as if it’s nothing… as if it isn’t everything.
Ask Us Anything 4: What the hell?
It becomes clear that heaven has everything to do with moving toward God’s desire for wholeness and the restoration of all creation, and hell has everything to do with resisting that.
Ask Us Anything 3: What does the Bible say about LGBTQ+?
The truth I see in the Bible’s big picture that God is love and that out of love, Jesus lives, dies, and lives again with arms outstretched in an expansive embrace of all, is part of what leads me to a place of inclusion.
