I have to admit I don’t remember a lot about the 1984 movie “Places in the Heart.”

To feel at home, one needs to feel emotionally, physically, and spiritually safe.

I have done a lot of different things in my nearly twenty-one years as pastor of this church, but valet parking cars on the morning

A community gives you the energy to come out of your echo chamber or silo or isolation, or whatever image you prefer.

In the world I have known, poetry is appreciated, disparaged, or ignored—not necessarily in that particular order. I’d like to weigh in on the side

I’ve long lived out on the edges of certainty. And yet the Reformed community welcomed and made space for me.

Simone Weil saw attention as being fully present with a mystery and yet resisting the urge to solve it.

I’m not okay. And I’m giving myself permission not to be okay.