“Come Thou Fount”: Lament, Imploring, Thanksgiving
“Come Thou Fount” is one of my favorite hymns. I first fell in love with it when I heard Sufjan …
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Freshness and Familiarity in Worship
If I put the top ten Christian worship songs in a blender and whizzed them up, I could probably re-arrange …
Si Dios quiere
When I was little, 24 was my favorite number. It still is. Math was not particularly my best subject, but …
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church
In my last post I wrote about my study of spirituality and stress in young urban mothers. You can read …
Waiting for Superman: Equality and Inequality in Education
What does equality look like? What does equality born from a Christian perspective look like? I’ve been thinking about that …
The Least of These
“Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or …
Art and the City
I love being in the country. I love wide open spaces and cattle grazing and horizons and simplicity. I grew …
In Defense of Singing
Christians are good at singing. It’s kind of weird to people with no church background: “What do you do on …
Hoping for change
Recently I was talking with a few friends about a highly frustrating situation that was fresh on my mind. I …
Zipporah: Wife of Moses, Accepted by God, Rejected by Men
Zipporah. Daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian. Wife of Moses. Mother of Gershom and Eliezer. Was she a hero …
