“Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ve been thinking about the question Diana posed last week – why is there so much talk about obedience? I was always taught an obedience that…
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Choosing Ritual and Religion to Find Relationship
Why an Episcopal Church, some people have asked me, and the simple answer is ‘because of Madeleine L’Engle’. But the actual answer involves Lauren Winner, Phyllis Tickle, Sara Miles, and Barbara Brown Taylor, a messy year, random Twitter conversations, and a blog post by a Pentecostal preacher. How can I describe what reading books and seeing a…
A Wounded, Secret Jesus Feminist
“The cracks were ricocheting and multiplying across my heart now, and when I turned to the Church for answers, I did not feel my questions were welcome.” – Jesus Feminist How do you not stay bitter? How do you let go of the anger, the hurts, the soul-deep wounds Christians have inflicted? Lean into the…
And Now, A Story
Pastor-Kings and Servant Leaders
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”- C.S. Lewis Sometimes Christian leadership feels like God is continually handing us Sauls, saying, ‘you wanted a leader,…
When On-Fire Ends in Embers
Though it pales in comparison To the overarching shadows, A speck of light can reignite the sun And swallow darkness whole. – Sleeping At Last He said “ Many of those stories highlight the bad parts of growing up evangelical.” And he’s right. My best memories and most formative moments happened over 9 summers…
We Wanted the Fire to Be Popular
Shedding A Faith
I have been formed by a culture of newness. Even my existence is a testimony to the strength of the Shepherding Movement, and the only dead theologians I knew of until I was an adult were C.S. Lewis and Martin Luther. It was my two years at a Lutheran school that cemented the belief…
Apparantly I’m Entitled, and I Don’t Care
I’m becoming a little tired of the responses to that RHE article that just dismiss her points as being caused by being a spoiled, entitled millennial. Because you know what? We aren’t. Leaving, partially leaving, or considering leaving this culture that we grew up in is painful. It feels like a slow amputation, and…