A Psalm for the Oppressed and Forgotten
The Contributor Post is by Ben Albers, MDiv. Where are you God? Where is the God of my childhood? Where is the God who promised to care for me always? The God that knew the hairs of my head. You...
View ArticleThere She Goes
Growing up, my mother had a large poster with all of the different names for God in the Bible. Nowhere on the poster was a name for God that indicated or celebrated the over thirty-to-forty (depending...
View ArticleDOMA: Other Words To Ponder
I have been thinking a lot about why the SCOTUS decision to overturn DOMA means so much to me as a person, as a woman of faith, and as a future mother. In the coming weeks I will be sharing some of...
View ArticleThe Girl God
Recently, my friend Mystic Mama was over for brunch with two of her kiddos after we all went to Baha’I devotions together. Mystic Mama is my kind of girl: hip, fun, thoughtful, wicked smart, ballsy,...
View ArticleAdvent I: The Tiniest Things
Once, a man got it into his head to build a large water feature in his backyard. He went to the library and did the appropriate research. He went to Home Depot and asked all the right questions and...
View ArticleAdvent II: Living Richly Here
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce…For...
View ArticleThe Prayer of Thanksgiving
Merry Christmas! This ancient prayer of thanksgiving—literally what the word eucharist means—was most likely said by very early Christians (1st or 2nd century CE) around a communal meal. One thing very...
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