A God Who Cleaves: Coming Out, Parents, and Queerness
"After college, I began to discover new tools for interpreting the Bible that allowed me, for the first time, to imagine myself as a whole person within my faith."
Emerging Writers
Developing Patience for the Slow Work of Justice
"Making sense of a spirituality and church culture that causes harm is complicated and layered, opening past wounds and inflicting new ones if not done with great care."
The Grief of Miscarriage Is Enough
I am stupefied now as I remember that I apologized for having a miscarriage. There is nothing I could have done to prevent them from happening. I had done nothing wrong. So, why did I apologize?
The Problem with Angels: Confronting Racism in Hospice Care
Zeena Regis tells the story of how racism complicates her experience as a hospice chaplain, and contemplates how to challenge that racism like one of the fearsome, truth-telling angels of Scripture.
A Wound and a Gift: Forgiveness and Restoration in Prison
For two men, one wrongly convicted and the other guilty of first degree murder, conversion to Christianity provides a way forward to forgiveness and restoration.
The Community’s Prayers Are My Prayers: A Life of Faith in Prison
For Christians incarcerated for first degree murder in Illinois, their faith can be a source of reconciliation and hope.
When Monsters Are Real
For Black filmmakers, the horror genre illuminates the evil and terror often underlying mundane encounters in a racist society.
Taking Off the Crown of Creation
What happens when we adjust our theology to see humans as part of creation rather than at the top of it?
Husband, Father, and Living a “Religious Life”?
When I one day meet God face-to-face, will I be able to look him in the eye and say, “I heard your call. I heeded you”?
To Kneel in the Soil: Responding to a Climate Generation in Crisis
How do we answer children's fears about the ongoing climate crisis? Maybe the best we can do is engaging them with living soil.
