The youth pastor had so many interrogations with the Gestapo that for his twenty-fifth interview he wore a black suit with a flower boutonniere.

In that moment, the words of my pastoral care professor–“90% of ministry is just showing up”–gave me courage.

It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before

We should say that the biblical witness regarding anger is complicated. My working theory is that getting good and mad might be exactly what God

Maybe Politics isn’t the Worst Option Developing a Multi-Faceted Theology of Protest In the US, the summer of 2020 was dubbed, “the summer of protest.” 

Becoming one of us, born in a simple fashion, among the least of the “thems” in order to draw humanity into the Divine “us.”

It’s a familiar hymn. I’ve sung it dozens of times in my life. More than that, it’s been sung in various settings and languages (starting with

Our family just relocated from Washington, DC to Philadelphia. As the daughter of a US State Department Foreign Service family who made 5 international moves

I like being right. Luckily, I’m right a lot. Just ask me and I’ll tell you it’s true. Or you can ask my husband. He’ll tell you