Quantum Physics Discoveries in QP have fundamentally changed our perception of reality. How does our heightened understanding of the innermost workings of the universe affect our belief in God, our understanding of…
Tripp Fuller The latest thoughts from Tripp: Nerding Out I am a proud nerd, but not just a Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica type of nerd, I am a theology nerd…
Stephen M. R. Covey How To Increase Your Integrity So how do we go about increasing our integrity? First, we need to consider what degree of integrity we currently have. At this point, you might find it helpful to…
Frederick Buechner With Great Laughter by Frederick Buechner Part of the farce was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was…
Uncategorized Being With Like most modern parents, Amy and I left the hospital with our son wanting to know “What do we do?” But our years of parenting and my work as a…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
Marilyn McEntyre Accept . . . what you cannot change . . . the terms of time . . . the body’s demands . . . the open spaces left by loss .…
Frederick Buechner Life Itself is Grace - from “Listening to Your Life” by Frederick Buechner - HarperOne Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. I discovered that if you really keep your eye peeled…
Diana Butler Bass Places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision “Ancient biblical tradition suggests that waters—wells, spring, oases—are also places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision, where human beings see God and receive God’s blessing.” (Grounded, p. 73) SCRIPTURE: With…
Frederick Buechner A Crazy, Holy Grace A crazy, holy grace I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that…
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Mark Feldmeir Two Stories I do not presume to have arrived on the issue, or to be “woke.” I simply want to share with you what I have discovered on my own journey toward…
Erin Robinson Hall The Gospel According to Joshua Sometimes words come back to me. They linger long enough to make me wonder what I am supposed to hear in them now. I wrote years ago about my…
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Uncategorized The gifts of neurodiversity The phrase “the gifts of neurodiversity” appears in the subtitle. Neurodiversity’s gifts do not form a discrete list. I think they are ways of being, of approaching our days; they…
John Pavlovitz When we lead with gentleness When we lead with gentleness, it decreases the chances that we will bulldoze someone with self-righteousness because we honestly believe that we’re no better than they are and no greater…
Madeleine L'Engle Inseparable All right. So it’s an impossible task. But thinking about it may open new questions , new insights. And as I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings…
Uncategorized Convictions Our response is framed by seven core convictions that we believe are foundational to a constructive engagement with the work of reparations. The first regards the nature of racism itself.…
Maya Angelou, Uncategorized Home From “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but from the age of three I grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, with my…
Mark Feldmeir Something more systemic? If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude resists unhealthy environments and empowers the possibility of change We might be grateful persons, with thankful hearts, and be fanatical about gratitude journals and intentions, but as soon as we walk out our front door or turn on the…