Racial Reconciliation
Dear [White] Church, Allow Your Hearts to Be Uncomfortably Broken
Dear [White] Church, Allow Your Hearts to Be Uncomfortably Broken Pain is a meeting place with God. It is a place of the truest honesty. Pain is not a…
Read MoreDear Church, Open Your Eyes to Racism
Dear Church, I write to you to admit my own blindness as a white woman to our history of racism and the harm that has been done and continues to…
Read MoreDear Church, I Write to Share a Recipe for Gumbo!
Dear Church, Given America’s polarized divisions, it’s time to make gumbo! As a proud native of New Orleans, I have absolutely no reservation in sharing that gumbo is my favorite…
Read MoreDear Church, I Can’t Hear You
Dear Church, Hello! Are you there? A social awakening is happening outside the walls of your well-constructed edifices. Do you not see it? Your people are hungry for change, yet…
Read MoreDear Church, Reconcilers Have to Reconcile!
For many years I believed my hope and my identity depended on how hard I worked for the body of Christ. But not in the 1 Corinthians 12-way, one body…
Read MoreDear Church, God Bless America
Unclench your fists. Hold out your hands. Take mine. Let us hold each other. Thus is God’s Glory Manifest. “Epiphany,” Madeleine L’Engle Dear Church, God bless America? Really? Tragically, our…
Read MoreDear Church, Rest with Jesus
Dear Church, “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a…
Read MoreDear Church, I’ve Been Avoiding This Conversation With You
Dear Church, I separated myself from you in late 2012. Until this summer, I had not stepped foot in my home church since November of 2013. I jokingly state that…
Read MoreDear Church, The 2020 Census will have a lasting Impact
Dear Church, By now you’ve heard that the 2020 Census will determine how much federal funding each community will get for healthcare, schools, housing, food assistance, and so much more.…
Read MoreDear Church, Do You Serve a God Who Sees?
I write to you not as a theologian but as a parishioner, a follower, and a friend. I acknowledge that while the “church” is made up of each of us;…
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