“This is my Body Broken for You” says the Christ, Jesus, Son of refugees, who had to flee a tyrant’s rage to Egypt. “This is my Body Broken for You” says Jesus Son of a pregnant single–not to mention brown–girl, who had to decide who she would tell that she was pregnant, and plot how… Read More
RevGalBookPals: Living Brave by Shannon Dingle
Content warning: Child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, traumatic loss. In her introduction to Living Brave: Lessons From Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope, Shannon Dingle tells her readers, This is not the book I intended to write. Dingle had completed a first draft of a book about surviving and naming the truth of a childhood… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: a policy of kindness
How we communicate what we communicate is itself an instrument of the gospel. Read More
Wednesday Prayer
It is a new day and I am trying hard to be glad in it The fight for justice continues and I am trying to stay in it The hurt is old and deep and I am trying to heal from it Love abounds but I don’t know how to trust it And in the… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Amazing God, On this day in the middle of the week In this moment in the middle of the morning As we journey in the middle of the Lenten season We stop and catch a view of both the sun’s brilliance and the moon’s light in the deep blue sky And we are convicted to… Read More