Loosed!
Loosed! You know the story, this wild Pentecost narrative, one of breath and fire and tongues, one of innumerable languages and proclamation and hearing, one wh...
How Will I Know? By the Meal
How will I know? How will I know? How will I know that the worst thing isn’t the last thing? How will I know that beginnings are possible when all I see are e...
How Will I Know? By the Way
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, there was a man named Bill in Western NC who found himself to be an up and coming thriving business man. The busi...
Clear Out Your Shame
Let me ask you a question: what’s your archetype? It was in the early 1900s that Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung defined archetypes as “ancient patterns of per...
When Life Together is Hard: Appearances
As the story goes, a little old Jewish lady sits down on a plane next to a big Swedish man and keeps staring at him. Finally she turns to him and says, ‘Pardo...
Church is for Legacy
If you had to summarize your life in six words, what would they be? That was the question posed years ago from an online magazine to a number of writers, both k...
Church is for Sustainability
Tell me – what are the durable stories in your life? You know the ones I’m talking about: the stories that just seem to keep carrying on, the stories that l...
Who Sinned?: Transforming Power and Authority
I am truly grateful for the invitation to be with you all this morning and to share Midwives of a Movement with you, if you joined us during the Sunday School h...
Tell Me A Story
Barbara Brown Taylor once told a story about a day she went to her local nursing home one afternoon to celebrate communion with the guests there....
Then and Now: Goodness (The Story of God)
I bet you know that story about the little girl, who could be one of yours or one of ours, who drew a picture in Sunday School one week....