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Being a pastor for trans people
"A trans person's story has some unique elements, but the work of pastoral care remains essentially the same."
What is Truth?: A Pentecostal Ethic
There are few things scarier than genuinely and openly stepping out in pursuit of truth. It is easy to be dogmatic but it is difficult to find the humility and courage necessary to begin unsettling one’s own limited understanding for something truer and purer than what we have already known.
After the journey
As I think about the Magi, I've remembered lessons about hatred and fear that I learned by traveling to Israel myself.
A few questions about baptism (Matthew 3:13–17)
Do we assume the authority of the heavens?
February 5, Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Isaiah 58:1–12; 1 Corinthians 2:1–12; Matthew 5:13–20
A do-gooder’s tale
D. L. Mayfield wanted to help Somali refugees. She ended up mostly baking them cupcakes.
How do you hold together your trans identity and your life of faith?
Nine trans Christians tell their stories.
Ta-Nehisi Coates stewards a story
The new Black Panther series uses genre conventions to say something true.
Three ways Buddhism has shaped me as a Sri Lankan Christian
The church of my youth taught me that salvation means having arrived. My Buddhist neighbors showed me otherwise.
What words mean to us
John Simpson's new memoir is about words. More significantly, it’s about our relationship to them.
The colonial gospel in Puerto Rico
Protestant missionaries as agents of empire