Category: Church Culture

Here’s something a little lighthearted for your Monday: the life of a single, female pastor as told by 20 Liz Lemon gifs. It’s Lent. Things feel a little

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