these are series of posts on particular themes
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some of my little (well, big) dreams for the church called "what could be" (late 2008):
- what could be
- God expanded
- pain welcomed
- doubt honored
- power diffused
- equality practiced
- love, mercy & compassion extended
- justice pursued
- creativity expressed
a view from the margins - a series of interviews with friends on the margins of life & faith (early 2009):
- God's ghetto
- respecting mental illness
- single dads eeking by
- marginalized kids
- divorced and on the outs
- gay + the church = a lot of damage
- the aftermath of physical & emotional abuse
- brown in a white world
out of the darkness - a series of interviews with friends breaking free from shame in all kinds of different ways:
- self-injury
- brave thoughts from a former abuser
- hope & healing from sexual addiction
- the lingering damage of sexual abuse
- eating disorders
- the A word - abortion
- the untold story of abused men
- never underestimate the damage of spiritual abuse
- women struggle with sexual addictions, too
- singleness & the church
doubt & faith (fall 2009):
- doubt & faith: the wild beautiful ride
- doubt & faith: owning our egocentric tendencies
- doubt & faith: new ways for old words
- doubt & faith - God, you out there?
- doubt & faith - living in the tension
video conversations:
- wrestling with the word "christian"
- taking things off the table to get to what's underneath
- going back because there's nowhere else to go
- church refugees - part 1
- church refugees - part 2, life outside the bubble
- church refugees - part 3, spiritual practices
signs of hope - interviews with people finding hope in the midst of pain (easter 2010):
- the bumpy road of sobriety
- emerging from the darkness of sexual abuse
- staying in instead of running away
- grief is weird
the beatitudes (2011):
- blessed are the spiritually poor
- blessed are those who mourn
- blessed are the meek
- blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
- blessed are the merciful
- blessed are the pure in heart
- blessed are the peacemakers
- blessed are those who are persecuted
co-pastoring & shared leadership:
- why i believe in co-pastoring
- co-pastoring: a video conversation, part 1
- co-pastoring: a video conversation, part 2
- copastoring: this is what it looks like here, part 3
- out of the mouths of co-pastors, part 1
- out of the mouths of co-pastors, part 2
cross-gender friendships
- cross-gender friendships
- over, under, beside
- friendship, freedom and a lot less fear
- let's be friends. wait, we don't know how to!
- practicing friendship
- alongside
- friendship heals
- the christmas story, friendship and our crazy notions about neat & tidy
- the road to equality is paved with friendship
rebuilding after deconstructing: a series related to moving through faith shifts (spring 2012):
- rebuilding after deconstructing (intro)
- 1. honoring the process
- 2. acknowledging losses
- 3. discovering what remains
- 4. finding what works
- 5. celebrating what was
- 6. igniting passion
- 7. exploring possibilities
- 8. trusting the path
plus:
- helpful & oh-not-so-helpful things people say during deconstruction
- soul care & spiritual practices for deconstruction
- i used to…but now i…
- rebuilding is possible: a little hope for deconstruction
sacred friendship summer camp series (summer 2012):
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friendship: mind-reading, assumptions, and saying-our-crazy-stuff-out-loud
- friendship: safety & boundaries aren't dumb psychology words
- friendship: conflict is good (even though most of us hate it)
- friendship: learning to let go
- friendship: men & women can be friends, here's a place to start
what it's like - a series of interviews with real life people going through hard things (fall 2012):
- what it’s like to get kicked out of church
- what it’s like to have a child who comes out as gay
- what it’s like to have cancer
- what it's like to lose a job and try to feed your family
- what it's like to get divorced in church
- what it's like to slip off the slope
- what it's like to get sober from sexual addiction
when christmas is hard...
- when christmas is hard
- when christmas is hard: help
- when christmas is hard: honoring paradox
- when christmas is hard: look toward the light
healing the divides (spring 2013), a series centered on living in the tension of our differences
- 8 ways those from more liberal and more conservative persuasions can better love each other
- safer people make safer conversations
- breaking down walls
- deeper dignified dialogue
- formation friday: our inner pharisee
- intra-faith dialogue
three things about one word:
grief week (june 2014):
- grief week: it starts with denial
- grief week: anger
- bargaining: the what ifs and if onlys
- depression: a natural part of grief
- acceptance: letting go again and again
3 part series on faith shifts (for convergent blog, fall 2014):
- you know your faith is shifting when...
- when our faith unravels, we lose a lot
- finding your way forward after everything comes apart
a 7 part series on faith shift: finding your way forward when everything you believe is coming apart (2015):
- fusing: the 10 commandments
- shifting: when things get rumbly
- returning: playing it safer
- unraveling: it's a lot to lose
- severing: some do, some don't
- rebuilding: finding life again
- Christianity's faith shift
a 5 part series on failure--failure week (june 2016)