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I process through writing. Since the school shooting at Uvalde, I’ve been working on this piece. It’s my reflection on how many Christians have turned guns into a new Baal.     Paint the guns gold Shape them into cows For God is not who we worship now   We worship 2A Because we don’t…

Every Thanksgiving I feel the opposite of thankful. I feel grouchy and resentful of all that I have to do to make the holiday feel meaningful for my kids. I just want to sit by the fire, drink coffee and read books like a proper curmudgeon. And every Thanksgiving God shows up with something to…

Fear and justice make strange bedfellows, and yet you never seem to find one without the other. In the darkest nights of fear is when justice is most needed. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the darkness of fear. In a sermon he title “Antidotes to Fear” he listed all of the fears people were facing…

    God bless my six-year-old’s 1st grade teacher, who laminated Zoom icons, held them up to the camera and repeated no less that 30 times today, “this is what the mute button looks like! Make sure you use it!” May she get peace and quiet at home tonight.   God bless the dad who…

I woke up this morning and said to my 10-year-old daughter, “100 years ago today, white women received the right to vote.”  She said, “Just white women?” “Yes, just white women,” I said.  “It took until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to guarantee that people of color could vote.” I write this on the…

Dear Minneapolis, I write to you from Charlottesville.  My heart is breaking for you. In my 20s, in the first years of my marriage, your Southside was my neighborhood.  I lived at 28th and Cedar, on the bus line that took my husband and I to and from the University of Minnesota campus for our…

I remember the first time I brought my eldest daughter to the pediatrician. She was only a few days old, still scrunched and tiny like a little old man.  They called her name from front desk, announcing that the doctor was ready to see her.  I was stunned that someone had called her name.  She…