The first-woman straitjacket
A baby serves as a metaphor for today’s church: fragile yet beautiful, crying yet worthy of every effort toward consolation, messy yet adorable.
Dis-Membership: religious leadership in a season of squishy commitment
The unsettled nature of voluntary participation is by no means limited to religious professionals. Religious professionals have a special role, however, and a special vulnerability in the face of squishy participation in faith communities.
Is the church collapsing?
Is the church collapsing? The answer to this question both soothes and troubles me… because it’s yes and no.
Christianity, meet the Metaverse: You already speak the same language
The church’s inattention to a growing and widespread acceptance that there is more than one universe, each existing on different planes that intersect in ways that make visitation between them difficult but possible, is a mystery to me.
Yes to “New,” no to “Normal”
Normal, I’m sending you packing. Why? Because we don’t need you, and because I don’t trust you’d stick around anyway. As for me, I want to find and create a new way, shaped by gratitude and intentionality.