Today I’m really excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Louisville Institute Pastoral Study Grant! This grant provides folks with financial support to undertake a research project. From their website: “awards grants to individual or…
Essays
An Invitation To A Radical Encounter With Jesus
The church library beckons with overflowing shelves of books. I scan my eyes over the spines and smile. There’s some great stuff in here. Then I look down to the young folks section. Lovely children’s…
How To Use My Voice
For the last several months I’ve been volunteering with an organization that goes into women’s prisons and jails and teaches writing and poetry workshops. I’ve been volunteering at a jail with several other folks. It’s…
Old Story, New Again
Over the last several weeks (months) my social media feed has been filled with “Wicked”. Clips from the film, from interviews with the stars and the director, reactions from people who have seen in, jokes…
No One Is Coming To Save Us… And That’s A Good Thing
For years I waited for someone or something to save me. To rescue me. To come and get me out of the situations I was in. Sometimes it was the hope of a new job…
Pigs Over A Cliff
A sermon based on Mark 5:1-20 I feel like almost all of us have a thing that we love that we feel a little bit shameful about. Maybe it’s reality television or romance novels or a…
I Can’t Fix Everything… But
The other day on Threads I started a thread. In the first post I said “I can’t change or fix everything but I can do my laundry” with a photo of clothing going into the…
Where there was nothing
For the last nine months or so I’ve hosted a weekly creativity session on Zoom for folks who are supporters on Patreon. Every week at our designated time I open up a Zoom room. Every…
Rituals for the end of the week
Every Saturday I clear off my desk. I put my pens and markers back in their holder. I go through all of the stacks of papers and books that I’ve accumulated. I charge my headphones…
Wanting Too Much
I used to be afraid of wanting too much. I remember member a moment from when I was four years old. My grandmother, who was one of my closest relatives, had cancer. Before bed I…