Written Words of Life
Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Or Why Theological Education Matters
The more you encounter something, the more you tend to dismiss its radical nature, its strangeness, its challenges, its difficulty. When you've been in an toxic relationship for 5 years, you cannot remember what "normal" is anymore, and it creates a space in you that...
Releasing & Reconciling Spiritual Trauma: June 24, 2018
Maybe you grew up embedded in the religious context. Maybe you joined later in life. More than likely, along the way, something happened that colored what had started as an inspiring and awe-inducing experience. And if it was significant enough, perhaps you joined the...
Becoming a Seed
The other night, in my own coaching group, we talked about Surrender. The big word. The one that sometimes makes you feel all heeved out because you think about giving up or raising the white flag. And I began to see how counter-cultural Surrender truly is. I mean,...
You Forgot I Was a Seed
The year was 1996... I had just moved up to Berkeley to start my first year as a student at UC Berkeley. I was OBSESSED with Sarah McLachlan's album Fumbling Towards Ecstacy. And I was ready to give college my all. Except I wasn't. Because I was really, truly,...
Walking in Freedom
Do not gloat at my fate, my enemy; although I am down now, I will rise up. Although I am in darkness now, the Eternal One will be my light. --Micah 7:8I've been reflecting a bit this week on two different passages in my own sacred text. The first is from a...
Will you be my Anamcara?
I've been thinking a lot recently about what led me to the point where I was ready to give up on Church. Because I had done it before. You see, between 14 and 17, I experienced repeated trauma at the hands of the Church. First, it was a head pastor caught in a hot...
Moana
The Gospel According to Moana – what’s the good news? Think about Motonue. It’s like the church. It’s been good. But it’s dying from the inside out. It provides life and meaning for its people, but it can’t sustain itself....