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The Kindom At Hand

When I was in seminary in the late 1990’s I deeply struggled with the way our church excluded queer folks. Some of my classmates, who were deeply gifted and clearly called, had to choose. They had to keep secrets about who they were and who they loved. Or they had to...

The Road Ahead

It is exhausting to do the work, to show up and listen, to be willing to change, and to reexamine my thoughts. It is difficult to give up power, to admit mistakes, and to be challenged in my patterns. I get why some folks’ instinct is to walk away, to claim it is...

Loss and Gain

This year has not been at all like we expected. Many of us are grieving cancelled plans, lost time with families, milestones unlike anything we’ve known. My daughter was supposed to march with her high school band at Disneyland.  I was supposed to speak at the...

Pumpkins with Justice

Every year we host an event where people share their pumpkins and we raise money for UNICEF.  A few years ago we added in an info sheet on all the ballot measures so that we could use the United Methodist Social Principles to help inform our voting. The Social...

Indigenous People’s Day

When I was in Spain during college I lived in a little town on the bay of Cadiz called El Puerto de Santa Maria.  Christopher Columbus had visited the community in 1480 and his pilot, Juan de la Cosa spent time in the town and drew his famous world map there in 1500....