Good News by the Dozen

Good News by the Dozen

The first round of eggs goes in the hands of a man who helped me move the chicken coop into place. Up a hill.  Smashing into low-hanging branches. Betwixt raised garden beds. A pilgrimage I hope to never make again. For his trouble, he received 12 boxes without...
Rejecting Jesus

Rejecting Jesus

The eurocentric Jesus has brought despair, disenfranchisement, and death to communities of color. For the sake of their own salvation, these communities must reject the genocidal Jesus who destroyed Indigenous peoples who refused to bow to the European white God; the...
Fast Food Life and the Hunger for Something Real

Fast Food Life and the Hunger for Something Real

I grew up under oak trees in Raleigh, North Carolina. They were my steady companions through every season of my childhood: green in the summer, red, orange, brown and yellow in the fall, bare and beautiful in winter. I watched them grow as I did. But inside our house,...
Remembering Kyle Lake 20 Years Later

Remembering Kyle Lake 20 Years Later

When Kyle Lake waded into the waters of baptism, preparing our congregation to bear witness to the transforming power of Jesus in the life of one of our own, we didn’t know it would be a core moment in our lives, in his, and in the life of our church. He didn’t walk...