Since coming home from Ferguson, and with everything we learned there, and everything we've been trying to unravel since we made our way home, we have slowly been building words together, and piling them up like an Ebenezer. We aren't the same people we were when we left home and boarded flights to …
When Going There Means Going There
One thing I need to say about the Going There conversation is this: it's a conversation I haven't mastered. I don't always get it. Like the rest of us, I'm learning as I go. The other day, I said I would try to answer this question I offered to you: “I see what’s happening in Ferguson. I don’t …
#GoingThere: What You Can Do
To say I'm surprised by the recent response to the #GoingThere conversation would be an understatement. I am grateful to you all. It seems as if the #GoingThere conversation is here to stay for a while, and so I'm going to accept that for what it is and continue to make this a safe place for …
Why We’ve Got to Go There
Strike that. I was going to start this with three words: "I'm sorry, but..." So, strike that. By now, I hope you know me. I hope you know my sincere desire not to offend, but to not let up on calling the Church to tear down walls and erase the incessant lines we keep building and drawing to …
Resolution
"Either God is big, or he isn't," Tom said. A few weekends ago, at a conference in Ohio, I got to catch up with some friends of ours from the church we attended when we lived in Pennsylvania. Our kids had been in the same youth group and it was Tom and Beth who moved away from Pennsylvania first. …
Simple Things
Earlier this year, I felt as if God was telling (challenging? inviting?) me to expand my territory. Do you remember when that little book, The Prayer of Jabez was all the rage and everyone was praying, and asking God to expand their territory, and meaning all sorts of different things when they …