Archive for October 2019
When Legacy Becomes a Lie
When I resigned from my full-time teaching job last semester, I didn’t realize all the feelings that would accompany the transition. I definitely didn’t realize how much of my identity I’d placed in my role as a professor.
Read MoreThe Bible Told Us Every Girl Was Sour?
The theological problem with purity culture and how we talk about the plague of pornography is that it sexualizes women (and men, though I think to a lesser extent).
Read MoreThe Sins of Our Fathers
Lenny was absolutely convinced there was some ontological difference between humans with pale pigmentation and those with dark.
Read More3 Reasons Church Leaders Should Observe the Sabbath
God, the creator of the entire universe and everything in it, rested and was refreshed. I could stop right here; we don’t need any more reasons to take a Sabbath. Friend, you and me and everyone else on the planet needs to be refreshed. God modeled the way for us.
Read MoreFostering Hospitality
We both knew that we wanted to foster and/or adopt children long before we met each other and were married ten years ago. Neither of us knew just how much it would stretch and strengthen our ability to be hospitable, to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Read MoreRacism, Sexism, and A Lust For Power in the Southern Baptist Church
Has our history of political maneuvering cloaked a love for power in the language of right theology?
Read MorePastoral Care in the Digital Age
If you are struggling with digital communication, I encourage you to see it not as drudgery but rather as an opportunity to extend just a little bit of God’s grace and love to those you’re emailing or tweeting with.
Read More3 Reason Our Churches Need the Old Testament
All my dark thoughts and feelings found expression in this collection of poems and prayers by God’s people for God’s people. If there are people like me in your church—and there probably are—then they need the Old Testament like I did.
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