I've become convinced that if Luke had chosen a picture of the gospel instead of 24 chapters of writing... [he] would have drawn for us a big table, wooden and worn and homey.

I found in [these letters] stories of men working hard to be countercultural to our training. We wished to leave behind the more arid and shallow masculinity of traditional male friendships.

When we step into the pulpit, we hope that the people will hear what we want them to hear, that they might be changed like we have been changed.

Maybe it’s not the amount of money that matters for churches today, but their willingness to risk it to try something new.

Prayer without belief/faith is no good. Why are we praying if we don’t believe?

What were they waiting to see? [...] Biblical mandates bring us to life, full life. In full life, we can’t not work for the collective good through the giving of tangible and intangible gifts.

...creativity and faith formation are deeply interrelated, especially when we define creativity as a process of articulating experiences and telling stories

In the midst of declines in attendance and donations, many congregations find themselves at a crossroad: How do they live out God's mission in this time and place when they seem to have less and less assets to do so?

Righteousness, holiness or right living in Leviticus 19 was determined by the sharing of resources as a community, or collective identity.

In a world that wants to criticize and categorize and commodify everything we do, time and space to create for its own sake is a sacred revolution.

I am drawn to women’s stories –
in their own voices,
about their own lives,
telling their own experiences.

"It takes all of us to showcase the rhythms and pitches of our various spiritual geographies, so that we might overhear the Spirit singing through new songs and fresh visions."

To teach the Bible today is... to teach a different way of reading than what our culture is comfortable with.

I wrote this book because I wanted to change the narrative [on immigration] and help people be more informed about this complex issue.

Who has spoken words over your body?
What words were used to bless?
What words were used to hurt?

But, when finally, I learn the ring-ness of human things, how rhythms pulled away aren’t left behind at all. I know I walk in shoes that are not mine.

"God’s abiding among us happens precisely amid, alongside, within the complexities of our experiences with home and with belonging."

It is on the scaled-down switch backs of mid-mountain trails that we find the most opportunity to live with embodied empathy. In the day-to-day of human living, we are to let our love to genuine

Erin Weber-Johnson writes about how to delve into the past and love versions of ourselves we would rather forget.

Taylor Short writes on the possibilities that bloom from accepting dandelions as beloved parts of our divine world.