Today, I want to add my voice to those in tribute to Rachel Held Evans, the popular Christian blogger and author who died this weekend following severe complications
What do a bunch of church musicians do for fun one night after a conference? Huddle together in a dorm commons room and watch the Paul Festa documentary
This weekend, the Vatican hosted a historic summit addressing the problem of sexual abuse within the Catholic church. The summit comes only a couple of weeks after a
I have a bit of a confession to make: I, Kristen, a United Methodist pastor, dyed-in-the-wool Christian, millennial, am a racist. There. I said it. What a weird
One of the more challenging classes I took in seminary was oddly enough not the big, wooly bear known as “systematic theology” (the study of theology within a
In the first two posts of this series we discussed the allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, public response, apologies made by accusers, victim shaming, social and vocational
Last week, I introduced my literature students to the poem, “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’s vision of modern apocalypse in a world where “things fall apart” as “anarchy
The backside of the Confederate monument at the North Carolina capital building in Raleigh, NC. I have spent much of the past month preparing to move from Raleigh,
