Man Enough to Ask for Help
I am grateful that I didn’t take the “just pray about it” approach to dealing with real emotional pain and trauma.
Bread and Justice: Lessons in Prayer
Perhaps Jesus is reminding us that Christian prayer must always be linked to economic justice.
The Power of Showing Up
But underneath all the labeling and naming and putting into groups are people. People with lives and loves and jobs to do. People with hopes and dreams.
A New World Is Possible: Reviving the Soul of America
Revivalism is a very American way of responding to social crisis. The revivals of the Second Great Awakening called for conversion to Jesus that went beyond personal piety and the promise of heaven.
Ground Zero: Why We Need the Lynchburg Revival
We are believing God for the Lynchburg Revival to be a powerful counter-witness to white Christian nationalism — marked by fasting, repentance, prayer, preaching, worship, and foot-washing.
3 Lessons From a Pastor Up Close to the Kentucky School Shooting
How can we work together as a faith community to help serve and minister to people in the grip of shock, pain, emotional trauma, grief and loss?
Love Song for Liturgy
Liturgical, call-and-response prayer is powerful. It is often doing more than we realize in the moment.
Looking Back with Lament, and Forward with Hope
I am grateful for the lists I have been reading of “the most notable events” of the past year. But at present many of the most hopeful occurrences of 2017 are likely hidden from our view.
Disarm Our Hearts: An Advent Prayer
May Your spirit of love and nonviolence fill our hearts and the hearts of people everywhere.
Lamenting the Lost Hope of Advent
Advent is the season of hope, the season of waiting for the coming of Christ. But how do you offer hope when the Church itself is the oppressor?