• 4 Minute Read Hi Friends! It feels great to be easing back into writing and podcasting. I took some time off to celebrate and do a bit of a life-pivot after the birth of our second daughter. What a joy she is! Today I am sharing an excerpt from Jemar Tisby’s new book, The …
The Good Friday Agreement: What Peace in Ireland Can Teach Us About Peace on Earth
• 4 Minute Read On my commute home this evening I was listening to the Fundamentalists podcasts hosted by Peter Rollins in which he mentioned an event called ‘the Belfast Agreement’ or because of the day it was signed, ‘The Good Friday Agreement.’ This was an agreement signed Good Friday, April 10, 1998 that …
Creative Love in a Conflicted World: Mending Divides as Peacemakers
• 5 Minute Read I hope that the beginning of Autumn is treating you well. It certainly feels good to move into a new season. For me, a new season is a time to lean into refreshment. Fresh starts. Fresh patterns. Fresh opportunities. Yet at some level, the change of season doesn’t solve the …
Whose Fault is This? (Jesus, Scapegoats, Good & Evil)
• 5 Minute Read I wanted to share something from a Jesus story that has come to mean a lot to me. This particular story happens like many stories of Jesus… he never seems to be looking for trouble, but how he engages with it always seems to lead to controversy. The story is …
Jonah Knew God (But Didn’t Love like God): What this Odd Prophet Teaches Us about Peacemaking
• 6 Minute Read Jonah has always been one of my favorite books in the bible. Just thinking about it brings back memories of flannel-graphs, paper pictures of x-rayed fish with a man kneeling somewhere near the lower intestine and Sunday school stories about a little man who thought he could disobey God. I …