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Being a pastor gives you a unique lens -- being a female pastor who doesn't fit the mold gives you a REALLY unique lens. Here are some thoughts as I try and understand the world around me through that lens.

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May 2, 2016

  I began this weekend by attending a large music festival. I brought one of my most extroverted friends with me – Heather. All day long, we never met a stranger. Everyone we encountered became our new best friend. From the guy who watched our backpacks whilst we went and got food, to the girls […]

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My bad theology- a holy week confession

March 21, 2016

I have bad theology. Now that may not surprise some of you – heck you may have always thought that about me – but I have a way of looking at my faith and my relationship to the Divine that is downright destructive, and it took this Lent to help me see how my theology […]

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My bad theology- a holy week confession

March 21, 2016

I have bad theology. Now that may not surprise some of you – heck you may have always thought that about me – but I have a way of looking at my faith and my relationship to the Divine that is downright destructive, and it took this Lent to help me see how my theology […]

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My bad theology- a holy week confession

March 21, 2016

I have bad theology. Now that may not surprise some of you – heck you may have always thought that about me – but I have a way of looking at my faith and my relationship to the Divine that is downright destructive, and it took this Lent to help me see how my theology […]

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Can Marriage be an Idol

July 1, 2015

Can Marriage Be an Idol?  With all the debate around marriage equality (this isn’t my response – that is coming soon I promise!), I wanted to share some thoughts I wrote awhile back on marriage and ask an important question: can marriage be an idol?  To get to know me, you should know that I am achievement […]

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Can Marriage be an Idol

July 1, 2015

Can Marriage Be an Idol?  With all the debate around marriage equality (this isn’t my response – that is coming soon I promise!), I wanted to share some thoughts I wrote awhile back on marriage and ask an important question: can marriage be an idol?  To get to know me, you should know that I am achievement […]

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An Edgy Eco-Encyclical- You go Pope Francis!

June 18, 2015

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and foster its renewal is our only hope.” Wendall Berry We were listening politely, and to be honest the speaker up until this point had been unremarkable, with a few points that led me to […]

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Let it Go

May 13, 2015

I was reading author Donald Miller’s latest book, “Scary Close,” when a sentence popped out from the page: “the root of all sin is the desire for control.” Throughout the next couple of days I kept going back and reading that same sentence again and again. As the three stooges’ saying goes, “I resemble that remark,” and I don’t like it! I kept […]

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God the Mother

May 6, 2015

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln I once watched a woman in my small group leave a church service with a look of devastation. Sometimes people forget that the clergy in the front of the church can see what […]

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50 Shades of Grace- Is Jezebel to blame?

April 23, 2015

  I was holding a fitness magazine in line at a grocery store when a lady from my church surprised me. We chatted for several minutes, and it wasn’t until I left the store that I noticed the headline across the top of my women’s fitness magazine was one of those ‘how to please your man’ topics. […]

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