May 14, 2021Member-onlyWhat Biblical Womanhood Really Means.In February, a Missouri pastor delivered a sermon to his Baptist congregation. From the pulpit, he body shamed women, objectifying them as adornments to husbands and as sexual conquests. He blamed women for intimacy issues and he blamed God for the male gender’s unchecked appetite for sex. He promoted the…Women10 min readWomen10 min read
Nov 5, 2020Member-only‘Who Won?’ It’s The Wrong Question.Kingdom Citizens Are Called To Be Prophetically Present During This Election — Somehow over the last two decades, I’ve come to think of the wee hours of the night as our time to savor being American. Year after year, our family participates in the important events of our heritage while the rest of Europe sleeps. Super Bowl parties that begin at 1:00…Election 20206 min readElection 20206 min read
Oct 12, 2020Member-onlyWhen Our Words are WeaponizedAn invitation to the Church to choose justice and peace over polarization. — Justice stands half-naked in the upper floor of a church in Copenhagen, Denmark. Peace poses beside her, in an equal state of disarray. Two statues tucked away into relative obscurity — nearly forgotten stones in a church, but they deliver a relevant message for us today. They state the tragically…Culture8 min readCulture8 min read
Sep 13, 2020Member-onlyDid You Suck at Motherhood Today?What mother, already in those first seconds of skin to skin contact, hasn’t felt the piercing fear of not being enough? Fast forward 13 years, and that same bundle of joy is staring you down with two primed lasers of hate. Parents teeter on a cliff between joy and desperation…Moms5 min readMoms5 min read
Jul 4, 2020Member-onlyA Time For Humility.Missional in a polarized world We cry. From our streets. From our churches. From our homes. From our borders. From our hospitals. From our prison cells. We cry, ‘God of mercy — breathe on us. Heal us.’ God answers. ‘If my people, who are called by my name, will humble…Diversity8 min readDiversity8 min read
Mar 19, 2020Member-onlyAntidote. And Other Things We Wished We’d Known During Quarantine and CoronaPC: Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash More With Less is the raggedy reality dawning on most of us as we come to grips with this new way of living during the uncertainty and stress of corona. Needing reassurance here in Hungary, I found myself going back to an old friend today. She’s been my companion these…Corona5 min readCorona5 min read
Mar 6, 2020Member-onlySARAJEVO — the power of the narrative — Field NotesCertainly, I have been aware of the power of a narrative for some time now. So too, the power wielded by the dominant narrative. And even the power that emerges when two competing narratives create paralysis to act in a governing body. …3 min read3 min read
Feb 27, 2020Member-onlySARAJEVO — day 1 — Field NotesIt’s not hard to fall in love with Sarajevo. It’s Balkan charm nestled within a dome of low mountains and the beautiful river flowing down the middle and the gondola cutting through sky immediately taps the romantic adventurer in all of us. …2 min read2 min read
Jan 11, 2020Member-onlyChristians Are Called To JusticeFrom ‘Strangers At Strange Tables’ — From the Swedish-accented tones of the formidable Greta Thunberg and her call to environmental responsibility to the political dilemmas in more nations than we care to count — uncertainty and controversey sit everywhere like kegs of gunpowder with wicks. Here, at the end of this decade, there are whispers of…7 min read7 min read
Dec 13, 2019Member-onlyStrange Signs of a Kingdom Coming | Mid-week Advent #2Part of Strangers At Strange Tables For Advent series What if we are meant to trace these signs in scripture just as those wonderful wisemen tracked a constellation? In the baby Jesus, God’s full hospitality has been set into motion. The magi from the East are probably my favorite characters from the nativity, aside from baby Jesus, of course…Christianity6 min readChristianity6 min read
