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February 2016

February 23, 2016
Olivia Smith, Associate Minister Intern at a social justice-oriented church in South Seattle, tackles displacement...
February 16, 2016
John Draper, author of A Danger to God Himself, muses on having remarkably civil conversations...
February 09, 2016
A peek behind the pulpit from the perspective of a (millennial) associate minister.
February 02, 2016
Check out beautiful photos of a *huge* Ethiopian Orthodox celebration in Seattle.

January 2016

January 26, 2016
What do Christians look like? Find out in this photo series.
January 19, 2016
Want to see what Christians look like? Follow along in this photo series.
January 12, 2016
Alexander Foster believes in giving away money. A lot. Why does this (Christian) entrepreneur donate...
January 05, 2016
Martin Luther King, Jr., once said that the "white moderate" is more dangerous to black...

December 2015

December 22, 2015
The final post in a series on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Read...
December 15, 2015
I'm reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander with a group from my church....
December 11, 2015
I am reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander with folks from my church...
December 02, 2015
Read along with me as I lead a spiritual book group connected to The New...

November 2015

November 24, 2015
Follow along as I run a book group to read The New Jim Crow--which dismantles...
November 17, 2015
I'm running a book group at my church to read The New Jim Crow. Join...
November 10, 2015
I talk with Kala, about to graduate college, and her fiance about their decision to...
November 03, 2015
My friend Liz writes about how she "scraped together" eight weeks of paid time off...

October 2015

October 27, 2015
I review Peter Enns' Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament,...
October 20, 2015
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a friend, Chris Terramane, who is building a...
October 13, 2015
Check out an interview I did with a faith healer about how he makes money...
October 06, 2015
Julia works and gives away 100% of her income. She isn't a Christian--in fact, her...

September 2015

September 29, 2015
How many Christians live in tiny homes? I want to find out.
September 22, 2015
Beguine Again is a thoroughly modern online church that gets its name from a very...
September 15, 2015
A Christian landscape, visible only from the air, in Western Massachusetts.
September 08, 2015
I wrap up a weeks-long investigation into adoption and Christianity by reflecting on the themes...
September 01, 2015
I talk more with foster mother Joanna about how her family practices therapeutic parenting and...

August 2015

August 25, 2015
I talk with Joanna, a foster mother, about the challenges of raising a foster child...
August 18, 2015
Larry Clow, editor of The Sound and author of a book about adoption and social...
August 11, 2015
Benjamin Corey of Formerly Fundie and I close out a conversation on international adoption...why we...
August 04, 2015
Part two of an interview with Benjamin Corey of Formely Fundie: why adoption is not...

July 2015

July 28, 2015
Benjamin Corey of Formely Fundie talks about why he and his wife chose to adopt--and...
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