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The best first class ever, and what they are teaching me
I debated before my very first classroom teaching experience whether or not to pretend like I knew what I was doing. Whether or not to tell the truth when we began that they were joining me on a...
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calling out in the darkness
I sat this morning watching a video (below) that highlights the last five years of a homeless ministry that houses and feeds the homeless in churches every night of the winter months. My mind went...
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pain is no measure of his faithfulness
Reflecting one year later on a great deal of change and uncertainty, loss and newness, anger and sadness, knowing and knowing nothing, I’m reminded by a friend tonight of the words below. On the eve...
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with our necks on the line
In all the complexities we hold out hope that we are thinking and choosing and doing well. but we do not know, of course, if we are. In all the dramatics we hold out hope that we are acting justly...
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no longer on our own
you’ve been walking a while mostly in the dark trying your best to make a map of where you’ve been in hopes that you can make a guess of where you’re going but the hill has been upward for such a long...
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this side of history | on watching “Lincoln”
it’s one thing to sit with a huge twenty-dollar coke watching the story unfold on the big screen making decisions pretending like we don’t know how the story goes. of course, i would vote for the...
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he loves the justice
I got an email yesterday afternoon from a friend and coworker in Nicaragua. She is fighting for justice in a case of child abuse, and has seen this thing from the very beginning to where it currently...
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beyond trayvon
beyond even the tragedy of a teenage life lost which is tragedy enough all by itself is the tragedy that we cannot have a conversation about the place in which we find ourselves that goes beyond...
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the best of us and the worst of us
we act our bestwhen we know we need to and it’s not completely a lie but rather an appearance that only shows the things we are most proud of in ourselves. so at work at events in conversations...
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the ways of the king and the kingdom
He’s stressed about work and life and pressure and as we pray for each other he uses the words “on the chopping block.” I’m waking up in the middle of the night thinking about what has to be done,...
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just right, right now
I have this great desire to look you square in the eyes in the way that looks beyond and through your eyes to those places where you are asking questions raising doubts blaming yourself doubting your...
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waiting to see
We can’t bare it anymore. We are waiting to see what you do and we are waiting to see how you move forward. Your self-definitions based on hatred and bigotry and xenophobia don’t resonate with us...
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carry on, warrior
“People hurt the things they fear,” has become for me one of the most haunting lines of Glennon Doyle Melton’s not-so-new book. And I’ve tried about ten times now to type out how Carry On Warrior has...
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Lord willing, we won’t keep growing
Our Jackson Home posted a piece I wrote reflecting on this year’s Remember Me Walk for survivor’s of homicide loss. This group is astounding to me, and I’ve copied some of the post below with a link to...
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you will go to church tomorrow
About five years ago, I sat next to her the morning she was trying church again. I understand why she had quit trying altogether up until now…the threats and the punches from her husband, the need to...
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an open letter to my students
An Open Letter to My Students on the Eve of the Orlando Shooting. June 12, 2016 Dear Students, You likely woke up today as I did: late. You may or may not have turned on the news as is my morning...
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this specific corner; that specific room
It ordinarily ends in this specific corner of that specific room. The very first evening ended in that space; this one did too. Time lies but this corner does not. Suddenly new yet very familiar....
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