Nope. Nope. Nope. The garbage that we were forced to hear this past weekend from the mouths of some of our politicians is not simple locker-room talk. My own 21-year old son said he's never, ever - in all his years in male locker rooms - heard the kind of lewd statements we heard in the last […]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how people who follow Jesus are called to treat "the other"  ... immigrants, ... refugees, people who look different from us. The political language around this concept can be downright frightening. And it is easy to get confused. But the Scriptures aren't confusing. Listen to what Barbara Brown […]

What if ... in cities across our country people of faith prayed every time they heard a siren ... for both the health and the safety of  the police officer or fire fighter speeding toward potential danger, as well as for the health and safety of those they were speeding toward? What if every siren, […]

This post is about me. It is not about you. It is not about other people,  or groups or causes. It is not about what I think you should do. It is about me. Our church is walking through Jesus' famous "Sermon on the Mount" this summer. It can be found in the Gospel of Matthew, […]

There was a mistake in my last post. I saw it only after I had already tweeted it, put it on Facebook, and friends had already read it. When I saw it my face flushed red with shame. I thought long and hard about deleting the entire post and fixing that one little error. I […]

Christians have such a weird relationships with hard emotions. I think it is because we often are led to believe that expressing sadness, disappointment, anger, or fear means that we don't trust God, we don't believe God is good; that we are somehow failing God  by being less than perfectly cheerful every day of our […]