This sermon was preached 10 March 2024 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square. We come here today with a prayer list full of people facing difficult struggles – painful losses, unknown futures, possibilities that we cannot fathom. Week after week, we gather around that prayer list and see the ways that we as […]
Recently, I have been thinking about my place in the world as a transgender, disabled, fat person. Each of these things is true about me all of the time, and yet, at different points I feel each of them more acutely. I have been thinking a lot about taking a break from the oppressive nature […]
Today as I’m writing this, I have chosen to spend the day away from all my responsibilities and tasks, and instead focus solely on what brings me joy and rejuvenates my soul. I call this practice Sabbath, after the tradition enumerated in the Hebrew Bible that for six days one should work, but on the […]
A sermon for the KA/NSA Collaborative Church in Chicago. It was preached 3/26/23. You get it a for a week before I publish it on my blog. Today, in our scripture readings, we have heard the theme of death and resurrection – and at no better time. In two short weeks Christians around the world […]
Defining theology as talking about God often can obfuscate the many philosophical components that go into theology. Temporality is one of these items that shifts and changes based on the philosophical system a theology is constructed from. For people like myself, change and time are the fundamental unit of existence – everything changes except for […]
Texts for the day [Using the Wisdom Text] and “How To Survive and Apocalypse” from Breaking and Blessing by Sean Parker Dennison. Each of these texts opens up the possibilities of an apocalypse – that is an inbreaking of something new. In the Wisdom of Solomon we hear about the possibilities that God’s original intentions […]
One of the greatest things I have noticed as a transgender person, is that the principles of Process Theology are easy for me to understand. Every moment, every day, every breath is an improvisation of gender performance, identity, existence. I am constantly trying to determine if and when to change, if and when to shift, […]
You just heard that that beloved cousin, honored aunt, or grandchild has come out as transgender. They are someone you love deeply. Yet, right now you’re terrified of hurting them. Here are my secrets that I wish my family had known and enacted when I came out. Clearly now, not all of these hints will […]
Every year, my favorite days lie in between the Reign of Christ and Christmas. These four weeks are often called Advent. They are some of the strangest moments in the Church year. Even though this period straddles two church years the readings all have a common theme – looking ahead to a time when Christ […]
This sermon was composed and preached at The Lutheran Church of Martha and Mary on the 5th of July 2020. The First Reading: Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant. The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and […]