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Swaddling: A Novice’s Guide to Parenting on the Occasion of Her High School Graduation
I needed to learn how to be a dad to the life that was actually present instead of the life I was anticipating.

Julian’s Hazelnut
It feels captivating that the world might be cradled in the palm of a hand, not merely created by the love of God but sustained

The Subversive Social Trinity
The dominant Western social imaginary is individualistic. Hierarchical. Authoritarian. The doctrine of the Trinity is anything but.

Rage, Despair, and Hope
What do our professed values matter if we allow genocide to happen? Does any of our lofty rhetoric about freedom, democracy, and the value of

Nothing is Small about Our Talk
Church spaces are full of small talk. It’s often in narthexes and the backs of sanctuaries, during coffee hour or community meals, that our children

Cheese Rolling, Lacrosse, Ketchup, and the Need to Win
Hot takes grab attention not simply with decisiveness but divisiveness. We celebrate winners and give a dismissive backhand to those labeled as “losers.”

Still Carrying My Couch and the Cost of Grace
An injury left me immobile on the couch for a few months. Thankfully, I’m slowly walking now, but in some ways I’m still carrying the

I Still Believe in Beauty
To create is to insist that destruction will not have the final word.

Laughter at a Monastery, Desert Mothers and Fathers, and the Wisdom of Solitude
I ate my bowl of lentils, growing more and more concerned, until I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye one of the monks

Probes, Prayers, and Promises from Walter Brueggemann
Serendipitously and unintentionally, Walter Brueggemann’s newest book, God of All Promises arrived on my birthday. It came in the usual way: a brown mailer from

The Cartography of Reconstruction
Through making this map, I wanted to surface the things I currently find to be most true in my relationship to God.

Resurrection at the Jamesville Dust Pit
Resurrection looks like an art project hung on a chain-link fence surrounding an empty lot. The transformation has not yet happened. There is still uncertainty