I started attending church in the eighties when my family joined a small, conservative congregation. We sat in hard, wooden pews. The stained-glass windows let in green-tinted sunlight. Hymnals provided a guide for four-part harmony, and King James gave us our Bible verses. Every week, between the songs and the sermon, we passed a brass…
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I…
My daughter is at the coffee shop age. Whether it means hanging out with friends or grabbing a crafted beverage through the drive-through, visiting a certain coffee chain is always on her to-do list. Recently, she saw an advertisement for a new drink and couldn’t wait to try it out. She described it to me—cold…
God Values Words; We Should Too As I write this, a Twitter-verse war has erupted about the media using the word lie in relation to our current president. This comes at the same time the Southern Baptist Convention, to put it mildly, is wrestling with careless words spoken by their leader that have negatively affected women…
Over the last few years, I’ve been exploring what it means to live out my faith in the context of racial justice and racial reconciliation. Throughout the process, God has led me to people of various ethnic backgrounds who have taught me so much about what it means to seek justice and reconciliation. The truth…
I can admit it: I had a MySpace account. I logged onto it again just for you. My profile photo is from over ten years ago, and I have a friend I don’t remember whose username is pacodapimp. Yikes. We had no idea what was about to happen to our culture when social media entered…