Christmas Eve 2022 – Still Imagining

Christmas Eve 2022. That feels like a line from the future or the Jetsons or something. We can’t possibly be nearly a quarter through the 21st century. I don’t know about you all but some of this year feels like it creaked along and I was stuck in the middle of. . ....

Happy Thanksgiving – thankful for faith

Reading and writing are two things I absolutely love to do. Until a couple years ago blogging, free-writing, and picking up whatever book interested me was commonplace. When I started doctoral work however, the intensity with which I have needed to read to keep up...

A Prayer of Lament over Rachel

During our five years in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh, our family did everything possible to make Jesus known through all things neighborly. Our son Amos was just 1 when we arrived, and we would push him up and down the hills in his little stroller as we...

An Open Letter to the Able-bodied Church

A picture is worth a thousand words. If you can see it, yes, that is true. If that picture cannot be seen, it is worth nothing. The disabled and the able-bodied have very different ways they experience the world. They will inevitably have different ways in which they...