Religiously fluid
Like a lot of Christian millennials, I don’t need Christianity to be everything for me.
Why I came back to the lectionary
My job as a preacher isn’t to change the game. It’s to run the plays well.
The 80/20 rule is a problem for churches
So why do so many of them embrace it as a solution?
When rituals leave us full—and then empty
Leaving the jailhouse graduation, I wondered, Where have I felt like this before?
Catharsis at church
The book of Ezra helped me realize how bad most congregations are at handling big emotions.
Reimagining how we reimagine church
We need to end our obsession with novelty and corporate jargon.
The little engine that needed collaborators
Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
The crowded elevator of opinions
We’ve become convinced that speaking is the most important thing we can do.
Who we can hear
Local leaders sometimes convene to try to stop the violence in Chicago. But whose voices are at the table?
King David and Kendrick Lamar (2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33)
Hip-hop’s origins go back farther than the 1970s.
August 15, Ordinary 20B (1 Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14)
Solomon has everything—and still, he seeks transformation.
August 8, Ordinary 19B (2 Samuel 18:5–9, 15, 31–33)
David, Absalom, and the dangers of “hanging between heaven and earth”