A Walking Paradox
“Sometimes my loving intentions don’t match up with my unloving actions.” a guest podcast by Jes Kast-Keat The post A Walking Paradox appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.
View ArticleMarching Out the Gospel
“Life: liberation from any types of system that suppress the identity of freedom, love, and belonging.” a guest podcast by Jes Kast-Keat The post Marching Out the Gospel appeared first on Thirty...
View ArticleElection Is About Mission
Election is about mission. Election is about the type of people we are called to be in this world and not so much about the world after this. To be potentially cliché, election isn’t so much about what...
View ArticleI Vote Yes for Social Media
I am tired of people berating social media and proclaiming that it is the downfall of personal interaction. I just don’t believe it. Social media has enhanced my life. It has connected me to new...
View ArticlePastoral Care
When I’m in pastoral care with someone, I begin with the realization that I am sitting next to someone who is beloved of Christ. I am sitting next to someone who has the divine spark of God in them....
View ArticleWe Have Said These Vows
No minister can say that our walk is the Spirit of Christ all the time. So I cry at ordinations because the God of grace has come into my life and has called me by my name into ordained ministry along...
View ArticleEvery Piece Matters
Fashion week is more than the vain self-consumption of new threads. Fashion week is an explosion of creativity in the clothes that we wear. It is an expression of cultural creativity. It reminds us...
View ArticlePrayers of the People
When I’m preparing for worship for Sunday morning I find it’s best to write the prayers of the people when I’m on the subway riding down to the church. I can hear the prayers of everybody around me...
View ArticleGod Our Mother
God is our divine mother. She is fierce. She is protective. She is warrior. She is love. She stands up and is merciful to the brokenhearted and humbles the power hungry to their knees. She does not ask...
View ArticleWe Demand God’s Intervention
Lamentation is an often overlooked but deeply faithful practice of Christians. Lamentation is the act of crying out to God when all is wrong. When the church fails us, when people we have trusted...
View ArticleFifty Percent Of The Psalms
I love the psalms. They are very human and are filled with the highest of emotions and the lowest of disappointments. Did you know that just under fifty percent of the psalms have lament themes in...
View ArticleForsaken
A reflection on Psalm 22: “My God, why have you forsaken me?” she yells as she buries her twenty five year old daughter. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” the new groom asks as he hears the...
View ArticleA Fierce Proud Queer Woman
You know, one of the things that I have learned in my thirty years as a queer person is that sexuality is much more fluid than my youth group leader would have wanted me to believe when I was twelve....
View ArticleDeeper Into Truth, Justice, & Love
As an enneagram Eight I will call us to truth. As the Psalmist says, “As deep calls out to deep,” so my leadership will bring us deeper into truth, justice, and love. I am not afraid to challenge but...
View ArticleJ.O.Y.
When I was young child my mother would make my brown paper lunches for me to take to school. Often there would be a note tucked away in the saran wrap expressing my mom’s love to me. At the bottom of...
View ArticleJoy Is…
Joy is resistance. Joy is refusing to let fear reign. Joy is protest. Joy is justice. Joy is considering all the facts and dancing anyway. Joy is delight. Joy is joining mother Mary and singing, “My...
View ArticleJoy + Grace
In Greek, “joy” is the word xaírō, and it means to be favorably disposed or leaned towards. Simply, joy is a state of being glad and we hear relationship understood in this word. In Greek, “grace” is...
View ArticleAgain I Will Say Rejoice
The book of Philippians chapter 4 says, “Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, rejoice.” Some may ask after reading this, “But how does one rejoice when hateful rhetoric seems the norm, anxiety...
View ArticleJoining Mother Mary
The first sermon I ever preached was on joy. Fitting as joy seems to be a marker of my ministry and how I understand the role of pastor. I stood on the stage at Mars Hill Bible Church proclaiming...
View ArticleA Theology Of Advocacy
So I’ve been thinking about advocacy a lot lately from a Christian theological perspective, particularly a pneumatological perspective. In the gospel of John, chapter 14, it says the Holy Spirit is the...
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