The Journey

... together we want to change the world for the better, and the best strategies for doing this are constantly evolving. We want to shake th...

Open doors await them Homosexuality and religion have a complicated past, but some area churches hope to bridge that gap this Sunday By JEAN...

One of the things I get to do, and really love doing, is to preach at churches around my state. I adore it. I get to meet some of the cooles...

So, The Husband is watching the Katy Perry video we talked about (see below) and is getting a little teary because of the cancer patient in ...

Okay, right after talking about cancer, this conversation happens: I'm in the car with LW and Bo Peep (5 and 8). We're listening t...

LW, working in the garden Elizabeth asked how everyone's doing. Pretty fabulous, thanks for asking. All the kids, including Little...

Back in October, I blogged about wanting to get the message out to parents to take their gay teen to a church where they would be welcomed a...

I know exactly when I took the red pill . I was in preaching class with one of my favorite professors and just chatting, he brought up the...

There is a saying about "It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." We nod sagely at that...

My Jewish friends taught me about Shabbat as being the holiday that comes once a week. Lately, I've been thinking about sleep as the sab...

I am passionate about the missional church movement and am often asked to explain exactly what "being missional" means. IT MEANS...

One of the advantages of my seminary is that it is interdenominational. My professor for Spirituality was an evangelical Friend, or Quaker. ...

Okay, so you know this song, but maybe not in this langugage and this version. The Bruce Cockburn Christmas album is just so, so, terrific...

Children sleeping, snow is softly falling Dreams are calling like bells in the distance We were dreamers not so long ago But one by one w...

Okay.  You totally know this song. In fact, you're probably sick of it, it's so overplayed on the radio. But overplayed doesn...

Today's is for A. L., S. B., and others who are hurting. Sometimes all you want for Christmas ... is for it to be over.  It magnifies ...

Most remakes of A Christmas Carol are pretty bad.  The latest, Christmas Cupid , completely stripped away any message of interdependence an...

I like the real. Even though my parents don't get drunk.  Well, Mama might get a wee bit tipsy with champagne, but only on Christmas E...

I believe in Santa Claus, I know he exists, and I absolutely love it when I get to be Santa Claus.  It is a big rite of passage when our chi...

Do you allow room for magic in your Christmas? I believe in Christmas magic and can't be talked out of it.  I've seen too much evi...