Tag: church
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Learning to be brave and mend with gold
There are two books that are actively on my mind now. This summer I started a book discussion group around the recently released (I think April 2026) We Mend With Gold by Kristin T. Lee. The subtitle of the book, An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity, says a lot. We’ve had one meeting about…
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on place. and a visit.
Places matter to me. When I think about milestone moments in my life or “eras” where I situate a past self, I always imagine a place. And if I visit such a place, memories and images flood back. The first time I walked into my elementary school cafeteria as an adult, I recognized the place…
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reflections on year two: am i okay now?
I’ve delayed posting my annual reflection on My Story at King’s Cross Church — longer than I needed anyway. Last year, I made a series of posts, the final which I wrote in late-December out of necessity; it just took me that long to work through my thoughts and feelings. Last year when I reread…
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reading Dorothee Sölle and the passive church
I can’t remember where I first encountered her name; it was probably a few weeks ago on a podcast or an article I was reading. I learned that she was a German liberation theologian in the wake of WWII. I was intrigued enough to search the library for any of her books; when the search…
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Lingering identity
Last week I attended a book launch event at my work place. Mark, the director of the seminary, was sharing about his recently published book, Sharing the Crust, a story about friendship and a community of saints that developed in Sandtown, Baltimore. The book offers snapshots of communal life in Sandtown and on relationships between…
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The Parable of the Sower as a lens on deconstruction
I was reading through the Gospel of Luke today. I have in mind to just write a bunch of sermons based on the parables of Jesus; some sermons that are not connected to a series and I’d find useful when I’m invited to guest preach at churches. So while it’s not the first parable in…