ministry

  • The Work of Mourning

    Pastoral Reflections on Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). In his beautiful series of reflections on the deaths of his friends and contemporaries (figures such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Sarah Kofman), Jacques Derrida writes… Continue reading

    The Work of Mourning

  • Reflections on Parenthood. Partnership. And Ministry.

    The following is a meditative reflection on negotiating the multiple vocations to parenthood, partnership, and ministry from a friend of the blog named Rachel who works as a Christian minister and who raises two children with her partner. You can see… Continue reading

  • WIT and WIM

    I recently spent a week visiting two very dear friends from my master’s program and their daughter (my goddaughter). Between work schedules, travels along the coast, and the daily chaos of life with a toddler, the three of us managed… Continue reading