an Advent sermon — Today’s Gospel is Luke 2.41-52: The Boy Jesus at the Temple The Gospel According to Luke is the only canonical gospel to tell a narrative about Jesus as a child, specifically, at twelve. Sometimes we refer to this as being a tween, a liminal space between childhood and adulthood where…

a Yes, And… Theology reflection — Rachel Held-Evans and her public faith lit a way for me during a difficult season in my life. Her book Searching For Sunday helped bring me back to the roots of my faith. …

In his profile introduction on The Circle, gay Christian Chris Sapphire said the Bible exhorts us to let our light shine before others and…

A Sermon on Forgiveness and Action — As a young woman, my great-grandmother, Buda, joined the Renewalist church, which was part of the early Pentecostal movement in Minnesota. The Pentecostal denomination emphasized the restoration of the spiritual gifts (prophecy, miracles, healing, discernment, tongues) to the contemporary church. Specifically, they focused on speaking in tongues. Buda explained to…

A Trans Faith Devotional —

A Trans Magnificat — And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirt rejoices in God the Preserver, who has been mindful of my humbleness as handmaid. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One has done remarkable things by me, and holy is The…

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa It was early Sunday morning and it was raining, which seemed appropriate. Rain is a Jungian Archetype…

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. …

White, able bodied, cishet Americans have been turning away from police violence, racism, and abuse for so long.The way white people are talking about this as a surprise and not American haven't been paying attention. Abuse and inequality are the tools white people (especially white cishet men) have used to…