Category: Blog

Blog

Two Solitudes

It was the day of the presidential election, November 8, 2016. I had been asked to preach in chapel at the Bast Preaching Festival at

Read More »
Blog

Happy Halloween

My most vivid memories of childhood involve Halloween. My brother and I would join our cousins walking the neighborhood to get as much candy as

Read More »
Blog

502 and 8

We’re eight years old today! The Twelve first appeared on October 31, 2011. It was no coincidence we appeared on Reformation Day, the day Luther

Read More »
Blog

Embodied

Tuesday. Lorelle and I, having decided that at twenty-eight we are much too old to stand for an entire concert with all the merely twenty-seven-year-old-General-Admissioners,

Read More »
Blog

Safely Gathered In

Reading The Magician’s Nephew last in The Chronicles of Narnia (just after The Last Battle) is a little like reading the book of Genesis last

Read More »
Blog

Me and the Jews

Just a couple weeks ago, on the evening of Yom Kippur, I took my usual seat at the Synagogue. I haven’t missed the Kol Nidre

Read More »
Blog

Should Historians be more Hospitable?

In the past few decades, professional historians have been in decline in the United States. Historians, professional organizations, and even non-historians have spent a great

Read More »
Blog

Preschool Theology IV

The other day I overheard my husband, Tony, practicing listening prayer with our three-year-old daughters. I was walking up the stairs when I heard their

Read More »