Category: Church Culture

I recently took a job and moved back to Dallas from Raleigh, North Carolina and an old friend showed up to help. She is relentlessly frantic and basically

This is a confession about how I encountered Jesus at work in my home church and how, through this encounter, I now find myself on a plane headed

“Community” has been a church buzz-word for the last few years. It refers not to our neighborhoods (as in, “community service”), but to an ideal of communal Christian

Les Miserables is one of those “love it” or “hate it” musicals. People have very strong opinions about it either way. On one hand, it is glorious storytelling

When I was a young girl in a traditional Southern Baptist Church, if you asked me what Easter was about, I would have told you right away: Jesus’s

“I don’t understand why you Protestants have to talk so much,” Maeve said as she sipped her tea.  “Well, we have a lot of theology around verbal confessions,”

My previous post was intended to be the final installment of this series on the “Christian Purity Movement.” While it addressed some current, interesting interpretations of this ideology

A few years ago, I was listening to a Christian radio station in Dallas when a song caught my ear. I thought it was lovely, a song clearly

As Thanksgiving draws near, many Christians find themselves reflecting on the end of another church year as we prepare to celebrate Advent on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. For Catholics,

A warning: This is going to be a long post. There was just too much goodness to cover.  If you missed part 1, check that out here. “The