Category: Blog

Citizens of the Kingdom

Jennifer Holberg is away today. We welcome Chad Pierce. The world feels like it is in a rough spot right now. This past week has

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The Ever-Bigger Welcome

Twelve things I saw preaching through the Acts of the Apostles, chapters ten to fifteen This past summer, Sophie (my wife and co-pastor) and I

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Predictable shadows

A week ago Sunday night I sat on the front porch and watched the moon as it rose, full and bright. Clouds came and went

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Japanese Autumn

Lines Composed in an Autumn Reverie, on Visiting the Japanese Garden one Friday Afternoon, October 2015.               Chrysanthemums Huddled

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Holy Fool

There has never been a great movie about John Brown. Seriously, hard as it is to believe, no one has ever done a blockbuster about

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Pizza Rat

Last week in New York City prior to the Pope’s arrival there was momentary buzz around a rat and a piece of pizza. As a

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Sexy Reformed

A couple weeks ago I was one of the speakers at Why Christian?, a conference curated by Rachel Held Evans and Nadia Bolz-Weber. Eleven women that Nadia

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What the Speaker Saw

There are at least three times in life when we are not in control of what our faces look like (and when, if we could

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