The Slightly Heretical Musings of a Pastor

Reflecting on How Church Leaders Forget What the World "Outside" is Like * One theme in this work at Faith in Public Life that k...

Reflecting on How Pro-Choice and Pro-Life People Can Work Together * This summer I am a Beatitudes Fellow at Faith in Public Life . The B...

This is a reflection documenting where I'm coming from, trying to bridge some gaps. It was written in preparation for my summer work as ...

This is a sermon I wrote as my final in Biblical Literature: Gospels, Epistles, Apocalypse taught by Dr. Althea Spencer-Miller .1 Disrupt...

We don't like to touch each other without that barrier of latex gloves between us. We have been taught to be afraid of germs--- cold ger...

When my mother, a United Methodist pastor, asked me in 2008 to be the lay delegate to Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference* for our charg...

This is the adapted sermon I preached at St. Paul, Norrisville , and Ayres' Chapel United Methodist Churches on Peace with Justice Sunda...

Now that classes are finished, I will hopefully resume my two plus posts a month.

My poetry is rusty, but the past several weeks I just keep thinking about Sarajevo. Comments and critiques appreciated. Her body is imprinte...

According to Horace Bushnell, a pastor in the early nineteenth century (the quote is not directly from him but interpreted by Dr. Morris Dav...