Category: Celebrate Recovery

Do This in Remembrance of Me

There were some who could eat right at the altar of sacrifice and restoration with hearts so hard that they would deny food to their own brothers and sisters in community because “well, if they wanted to eat, they should have brought their own.”

Two orange butterflies alight several thistle blossoms

Bullhorns and Butterflies

If you want to build your faith up so that you honor Jesus and you draw people to Jesus in your lives, might I suggest you do it the way that Jesus did?

Not Your Place, Not Your Time

White people, do not go into Black spaces to help change the conversation or add your very important opinion. It is just not the time and place for that.

Making Good in Trouble

“Making good trouble” means stirring things up so that we do not become complacent about our situation and resigned to injustice

Wyte Innocence

Wyte people can’t be accused of bias or wrong unless there is exceedingly overwhelming “proof,” and even then we will go down fighting and insisting that we were not wrong

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Jesus as Emperor

The vision of Jesus for empire Christianity in our Sunday Schools and sermons and theologies is really an irrelevant Jesus who does not match the Jesus of the texts.

A man works to repair a church window.

On Deconstruction

For the vast, vast majority of people, “deconstruction” is a good thing. Deconstruction can result in something far different and, in my opinion, far better than, white Evangelical Christianity.

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When Our Bibles Get It Wrong

The history of the church is our confidence in rightly understanding until we realize how terribly wrong we’ve misunderstood everything.

Leaf floating on water

When You Fall

I write and edit for a living, and I write for fun. I have a few novels in progress, with … More

Lenten Lamentations

I don’t usually participate in Lent, the season marking the weeks before Jesus’ last days. It’s kinda “churchy” and I … More

Getting From A to B

It was a hard day today. I spent much of it reflecting upon the journey and upon my words and … More

I’m Just Here to Dance

I had an interesting question the other day: are Christians good? The subject came up because there is a defense … More

In the Fields of the Lord

I guess I’m on a kick of listening to acoustic, and finding intriguing (for me) albums that have that just-right … More