Hopeful Grief
G0iving people permission to grieve may be one of the more important things I do in my role as both pastor and chaplain.
Tag: hope
Forgive
Forgiveness is a difficult thing. It’s difficult because we want to make it about the person we’re forgiving, but it’s really about who we are and who we serve.
A Spiritual Disease
Racism is a spiritual disease, does it have an analogy in medical science?
Grieving a Saint
Saturday I was greeted with the terrible news that Rachele Held Evans had passed away. I’m heartbroken.
Why I’m a Christian
When I was a Junior in college I remember collapsing into a chair in a professor’s office. I’d just had an encounter with the type of anti-intellectual attitude which would eventually drive me from Evangelicalism, but at the time it was like be blindsided.
Christmas, A Defiant Hope
Advent is a season that I call the “Painful Hope.” But on Christmas, like Easter a bit later in the year, something amazing happens.
