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Review: Transgressive Devotion
In Natalie Wigg-Stevenson’s Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art, the author attempts to pray in public, but to do so in a way that will shock its readers into seeing and constituting reality differently. She writes as a performance theologian,… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 3: God is Love)
How many songs have we heard in our lifetimes that are about love? How many poems have we read that have something to do with love – love lost or love gained? How many stories that have touched our hearts… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 2: God as our Good Shepherd)
In this post, I’d like to share with you the way I imagine God, the way I attempt to wrap my mind around whatever it is we are referring to when we say that word. This is a task that… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 1: Approaching the Question)
When I began looking for a college at the age of 17, I went to my guidance counselor’s office. I told them I needed help finding the right college. I was pretty sure I wanted to become a professor, but… Continue reading
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Habits of Resistance in Two (very different) Moments: An Entrance into Holy Week
The other day I was talking with my stepson about doing some exercise. He’s been wanting to work out for quite some time now, but can’t seem to get it together, you know? Sometimes it’s too cold. Sometimes it’s too… Continue reading
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The Nativity and Mission of Jesus
On this third Sunday of Advent, we find ourselves just 11 days from Christmas. It is a special time of year, of course, as we celebrate Jesus’s birth. But sometimes even the best of us can forget about Jesus during… Continue reading
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Doing Theology in Church
Are either ministers or theologians adequately equipped to provide theological education in church—the one with their competing pastoral demands, and the other with their fancy jargon and more footnotes than is probably healthy? Continue reading
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Breaking Bread, Breaking Rules
A few months back, before the coronavirus pandemic, I had the privilege of serving communion to my church community. In our practice, congregants gather at the front of the church and kneel to receive the Eucharistic elements. Individuals, couples, friends,… Continue reading
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Lent, Liturgy, and the Particular
The season of Lent, which has typically been a time in the Christian calendar for repentance and self-denial, is fraught for me. I’m supposing it is also complicated for some other women, people of color, LGBTQ persons, and members of… Continue reading
