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Reconciliation and Joy
March 22, 2025
Potlucks, gardens, and joy in the Holy Ghost
Reconciliation and Politics
March 15, 2025
Racial reconciliation as "being political"
Reconciliation and Prophetic Witness
March 8, 2025
Let your light shine before others...
Preaching Through Chaos and Cruelty
March 1, 2025
This week I’m taking a break from reflecting on reconciliation in order to think about preaching during these chaotic, confusing, and, increasingly, cruel...
Reconciliation and Warfare
February 15, 2025
"It is an outrage upon the soul, a war upon the immortal spirit..."
Reconciliation and Repair
February 1, 2025
Multiracial churches that aren't (only) for white people
Reconciliation and the Preferential Option
January 25, 2025
Bearing witness to the hierarchy-upending kingdom of God
Reconciliation and New Creation
January 18, 2025
The possibility of reconciling what was never conciled
My Year With Books (and Burnout)
December 28, 2024
The books that held me up in 2024
We Will Set Our Hope
December 21, 2024
I hope you each have some rest and rejoicing ahead of you during the next few days. Our family is looking forward to visiting Maggie’s side of the family and...
Equipment for Dying
December 14, 2024
We recently hosted a small gathering to celebrate my dad’s retirement from full-time ministry. While planning the party, I remembered an essay I wrote a...
Advent Shadows
December 7, 2024
Facing reality, finding Christ
Finding Justice in Evil Days
November 30, 2024
A sermon about the God who enters our troubles with us
Lanes and Lines
November 23, 2024
Recognizing the times and what they might require of us
A Record of God's Experience
November 16, 2024
History from a perspective far wider than our own
Ten Convictions After the Election
November 9, 2024
Here's what I keep coming back to
Vulnerable Non-Partisanship
October 30, 2024
Speaking truth and seeking justice outside the bifurcating boundaries
Reconciling to Place
October 12, 2024
Well, Plundered is out in the world and it’s been a full fun stretch of travel, workshops, preaching, and podcasts. As you might imagine, my margin has been...
Plundered is Available Tomorrow!
October 7, 2024
Can you help spread the word?
For the Activist
September 28, 2024
A vision of transformation big enough to include our own lives
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