Over the past weeks and months I have been hearing a lot about food. Immigrant families in Minneapolis too afraid to go
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Lent invites us into the dangerous work of remembering. Not the soft remembering of nostalgia, but the disruptive remembering that unsettles empire. Lent calls us to remember who we are beneath the lies that those in power tell us about
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Over the past weeks and months I have been hearing a lot about food. Immigrant families in Minneapolis too afraid to go to work, school, or the grocery store because of the violent presence of ICE on the streets. Emergency food distribution centers in Kansas running out of food because
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It’s destabilizing at times, to be awake to the reality that we are witnessing global reordering, systemic transitions, and power struggles that impact the well-being of our world. Shifting climate patterns, economic instability, authoritarian resurgence, and intentional deception campaigns are not just headlines– they impact our bodies' senses and shape
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When I think of hills, I think of the ones in Missouri. The ones that looked like heads of broccoli to me as a child when the trees were full and green in the summer. The sides of them are blasted open to make way for the highway, putting layers
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It’s been nearly two thousand years since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, fifty-eight years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and eleven years since the murder of Michael Brown Jr. Though centuries separate these tragedies, the injustices that caused them persist. We live amid a moral
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The love of God in our world may not always be obvious. Our relationship with God is so personal and therefore, I think that many of us struggle with the very personal topic of God’s love. I think we can get it when it comes to puppies, kittens and babies.
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As an Old Testament specialist, there are few texts which capture my imagination in the way that Ezekiel 37, the vision of the valley of dry bones, does. Of course, this is in large part due to the bizarre imagery. The visuals of bones stitching themselves back together and skin
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I want to start by being vulnerable with you. It has been hard to write this devotional. Not because my love for God is not strong, nor because I do not enjoy the season of Lent, but like so many of you, my soul feels heavy from the reality of
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Lent invites us into the dangerous work of remembering. Not the soft remembering of nostalgia, but the disruptive remembering that unsettles empire. Lent calls us to remember who we are beneath the lies that those in power tell us about our worth. To remember who God has been in the
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The best book I read this year was Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kawme Adjei-Brenyah. This dystopian, Hunger Games-eque novel was written as a critique of the American prison system. I found it so compelling because the storyline felt so close and so far away all at once. The
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