When Life Together is Hard: Thanksgivings
The history of the Thanksgiving holiday is what you might call… complicated. It’s complicated like most human-declared events are, layered in different pers...
When Life Together is Hard: Institutions
“Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the doors and see all the people. Close the doors and hear them pray. Open the doors, they all walk away.”&...
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...
When Life Together Is Hard: Essentials
Every year on All Saints Sunday, I’m struck again by the profound gift and challenge of life together. I see in your faces the grief you’ve experienced as y...
Fully Alive
Ten years ago this summer, Josh, Liam, Annabelle, and I loaded up our cars and headed southeast to plant our lives with you, right here in Winston-Salem. But be...
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...
The Good Life: Astounded
“And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.” Today’s text is one filled with mystery. We can read the story of th...