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A Holy and Subversive Imagination
My hope, in this series of blogposts, is not only to honor Brueggemann’s legacy, but also, using Brueggemann’s work, to brainstorm together what we as


What Is Mature Hope?
One way or another, probably all of us are pondering the possibility of hope these days. Some days we “feel” hope, some days we “do”


A Delightful Inheritance
Justin and I looked at each other over our coffees and knew at once that this would be our text as well. For in a


A God With No Borders
An old proverb says, “When the map and the terrain differ, the terrain is always right.”


With Our Hearts, as With Our Lips
For most of July, I was on an extended trip to England: partly for research, partly for vacation, and partly to prepare for my fall


The Stuff We’re Made Of
Plenty of very smart people have spent significant brain power parsing out the difference between “things” and “stuff”– and the more you dig, the more


High Speed Makes His Confession
We lived outside Cincinnati, Ohio when I was a kid and my great-grandfather, Howard Sumner Munroe (he always claimed his initials “H. S.” stood for

Worship: Our School of Protest
It’s not just the words that we sing, it’s the very fact that this is how we choose to engage our faith and our world–in


Dieting, Domesticity, & Devotion: Conservative Religion & Politics and the Shrinking of Women
The aim of rhetoric of traditional ideas of gender and femininity, framed as if it’s caring for women’s overall well-being, is to control them..


The Wizard of Garden Grove
Schuller’s land of Oz turned out to be Orange County, California, and there he did not find but built his Emerald City.


When Do Girls Fall Behind?
The gap cannot be explained by boys being inherently better at math than girls. Numerous studies show that males and females perform similarly in math


I’ve Never Done It Before, But
I wonder about this precious time together. I suspect that we could be doing something more.