Category: Church Culture

Despite what the naysayers will tell you, there can be good reasons to leave a church. Sadly, it’s usually a leadership issue. A toxic minister can run a

Last Tuesday, I took time out on a work night to go to the movies and watch a documentary about the Pope. (I know. I really know how

There is soft, ambient music playing as suddenly, the voice of the speaker mellows to a hushed tone. You feel your heart rising inside of your chest as

I. “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” My training in Philosophy might be summarized as taking this saying to an extreme.  To borrow one of Stanley Hauerwas’

I remember middle school well. I wish I didn’t- it was not a good time for 13 year-old Kristen, whose daily uniform included overall shorts, baggy GAP t-shirts,

During one very hot Texas summer many years ago, I went with a group of high school students to Harlingen, Texas for a mission trip. Every day, we

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