How to think theologically about culture

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. -Karl Barth One of the goals of ministry, for me at least, is to facilitate conversations about how our faith intersects with our lives and our societies. I see people who claim to follow Jesus […]

Expand and Contract: living toward a new way of being in the world

I was talking to a friend yesterday, discussing what you do when systems are broken. What is the response when what it true about the world is different than what should be true? That gap between reality and the flourishing of God’s world calls for a pause before movement. The pause is an invitation to […]

Strange milestones in parenting a medically fragile chid

When Micah was a baby, he had to be fed every three hours round the clock. 9pm. Midnight. 3 am. 6 am. I was unaware that sleeping all night marked my life with normalcy (and sanity) until alarms sounded all night long. Three cans of formula sat by a scale on our kitchen counter and […]

Seminary Notes 9: context and company

At the very end of last year, I realized that there were a couple handfuls of women in seminary who followed me on Instagram and they all felt lonely. Most of them, like myself, are doing seminary online and miss the community that can naturally occur in a campus environment. Almost instantly, I realized that […]

An IG question: when people disagree about women

I tried to quit Instagram again. I love seeing people quit Instagram and every single time I think, “Yes, I will quit Instagram! What a lovely idea.” But this time I started praying about it and conversation after conversation after conversation with other wise people in my life said, “Nope. This is not the move […]

A February Friday: what I’m doing, reading, and watching

The kids are out of school for a teacher workday so it’s been a relaxed day for me as well. Pairing nicely with a day off school, we were graced with 65 degree weather. It’s glorious, though I’ve warned the boys, and myself, that winter is not over yet. What I’m doing: I got a […]

Don’t be leaders; be faithful followers

A few months ago, I saw a pastor’s response to a question on Instagram and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. In summary, a follower asked why there was a shortage of strong male leaders and the pastor responded that it was because women were trying to be men.* Women apparently prevent the men […]