Month: May 2022

  • Fourth grade child, crucified

    Processing the grief and horror of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX with a poem. God, have mercy. Fourth Grade Child, Crucified Fourth grade child on the cross, you did not choose this. There is nothing in you nor your family, friends, or schoolmates that deserved this. All forever changed without consent. Where was Christ…

  • Super chill book review part 2: All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep (Andre Henry)

    As promised—and eagerly awaited, I’m sure!—this is the second part of a super chill book review of Andre Henry’s All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep. (The first part is chillin over here if you didn’t catch it before.)  Here are a few more quotes and thoughts. 4) On the language of “can’t”: “That was…

  • Super chill book review part 1: All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep (Andre Henry)

    I was fortunate to cross paths with Andre Henry while studying at Fuller, and I have a great deal of respect for him as a musician, writer, and human. So my expectations for his first book, All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope–and Hard Pills to Swallow–About Fighting for Black Lives (Convergent 2022), were…

  • Public property, 73%, centering, and quickening: four brief thoughts on abortion

    You may not be surprised to hear that, over the last few days—like much of the U.S.—I’ve been thinking about abortion. Sometimes I see people—mostly Christians—say that they feel like they “need” to weigh in. I don’t really feel that need.  Part of it is that I generally don’t feel the need to weigh in…

  • Reflections from a Lenten porch sit practice

    For Lent this year I thought I’d add a daily practice of sitting on our back porch for ten minutes, doing nothing. I didn’t actually end up doing this every day. Maybe about half the days total. But hey, twenty-ish days of porch sits are better than no days of porch sits, right? I don’t…