Learning costly resistance from Bonhoeffer
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
The adversary incarnate? (Mark 8:31-38)
We can ignore the Satan stuff, or we can address it.
Sent out with words of approval (Mark 1:9-15)
The wilderness is hard enough. Kindness helps.
Ashes without glitter
I'm a queer Christian pastor, and I'll be using regular, old, boring ashes like always.
February 14, Ash Wednesday (Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17)
There are two sure things in life: death and sin.
Tomboys, trans folks, and the Times
Gender transitions can be lifesaving. But they're not the right path for everyone.
Trauma, trigger warnings, and making a little space
During the earliest years of my ministry I served as a hospital chaplain, shepherding both religious and non-religious patients and families through the worst days of their lives....
In defense of the church building
It seems like every week I hear someone in the wider church say, “You know, the church is more than the building.”...
Being they: God and nonbinary gender
We call God "Father" and "Mother" because children don't say "Parent, Parent." But what will my children call me?
Donald Trump and the gratitude gap
The realization came to me while watching the “Mothers of the Movement” speaking at the Democratic National Convention. These mothers of children who had died too young and too violently, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, and more, had come to Philadelphia to speak. Sandra Bland’s mom was leading them off with words of faith and grace.
And that’s when I thought about Donald Trump’s speech at his own convention last week, and about the overarching message of fear, intolerance, and negativity that has come to define his campaign.