Category: Blog

The Three G’s of Thanksgiving

As I prepared to write for this Thanksgiving Day, I returned to previous years’ blogs. One in particular, a reflection on the theater of Thanksgiving, stood

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Soup Kitchen Church

I’ve written about the weekly Soup Kitchen Church that I lead multiple times on The Twelve. It’s both the most demanding and the greatest joy

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Out of Egypt

He’s done it before and he did it again this weekend: a writer named Nicholas Kristof who claims no allegiance to the Christian faith–but who

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The Danger of a Single Story

by Rebecca Koerselman “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya to Vizzini on his

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Sojourner Truth

As an escape from the terrorists–that is, from the obsessive coverage designed to keep us in fear, the media in cash, and the perpetrators in

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First Snow

There’s nothing like the feeling of waking up in the morning and looking outside to find the world blanketed in white. There’s an excitement in

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For Travis and Mariah

Today’s blog is dedicated to a dear colleague and his wife—Travis and Mariah West. Those of you who know Western Theological Seminary likely know their names.

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Steady Til Sunset

The intermittent chirping woke me up a little after 5 a.m. At first, the timing of the “cheeps” was spaced far enough apart that I

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