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The Confidence Gap: Why #BlackLivesMatter In The Classroom

On the first day of a new semester, I often have students introduce themselves via a simple icebreaker. I ask them to state their name, major, and an adjective that best describes their personality and begins with the first letter of their first name. Inevitably, Ill get the Joyful Jens, the Bold Brendas, and…

See the Light? An Uprising in Baltimore (FAQC)

Malcolm Gladwell defines a “tipping point” as the moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Collective Rage has a tipping point. Collective Frustration has a tipping point. Social media and technology is—thankfully—shining a glaring light on a problem that has existed for generations in this country:…

Sitting in Awe of My Transformation

Originally posted on Chasing the Promise:
Eyes heavy, Spirit fed So different Pause I think about my past Passion, Fire, Prophetic Voice Having no true north Effective for the season but ungrounded See children speak from sources passed onto them Saying foolish, feeble things because secondhand, threadbare theology is what they put on Now I…

Thursday Thoughts

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said…

To Stretch or Not To Stretch, To Fly or Not To Fly

God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint saysI cannot stand anymore. God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Oswald Chambers I want to fly. But to fly, I must…

Thursday Thoughts

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We’re here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don’t…

“Mommy, why can’t I fly?” Acknowledging Limitations While Pursuing Dreams

I was a dreamy kind of kid. If I wasnt reading the made-up stories in my books, I was making up stories in my head. I could sit for hours and imagine what it might be like to perform on a stage like Janet Jackson or how important Id feel standing in a courtroom doing…

Thursday Thoughts

People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle. – Gordon MacDonald in Ordering Your Private World

Redux: My Problem with (what some call) Forgiveness: A Heart Cracked Wide Open by Ferguson, MO

I wrote this piece right after the Ferguson rebellion regarding faith and forgiveness. I’m re-sharing it because there seems to be a whole lot of “I’m sorry’s” and “you should/shouldn’t forgive” making the social media rounds these days. *** Do some deathshave a purpose? I have to believe they do. Even the senseless ones. Even…

Thursday Thoughts

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life–be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others…I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba’s child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused. –Brennan Manning