Online Games: Creating a Space to Foster Community

With COVID-19 becoming a consistent aspect of life in these last few months, there’s been a major uptick in social media usage, video game sales, and media discourse. In the time of a worsening pandemic, civil unrest and police brutality, and a continuously uncertain future, more people are online than ever. Like any medium, games […]

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The Mystery Remains Intact

In December 2019, BBC Reel released a film – Diving into a Medieval Mystery – which steeped the viewer in the mysteries of the deep; in this case, the enigma of a spring-fed well as much wholly mysterious as it is undeniably present.  Effusing over 82 gallons a second, the spring is located in north-central […]

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Liturgy as a Greater-than-Sensical Response to Covid-19

We are not in control. We cannot make sense of this. We need to be held by something greater-than-sensical.   Everything is Not Ok Right Now (and it’s ok not to be ok) As you read this blog, I invite you to breathe with me. *In, then out.* There’s something really hard going on right […]

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Sacred Communities

Humankind is always searching for meaning in life and during this current world health crisis (i.e. COVID-19), it appears the search has gone deeper. In times of crisis, individuals of sacred communities support and comfort each other as they search for answers. Relationships are confirmed and formed as we reflect on what our relationship with […]

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Youth as Sacred

As ministers, we are experiencing a great challenge in trying to figure out how to best serve the people of God amidst a truly unique and trying time. COVID-19 has required each of us to make changes in how we live. It has also challenged us to think about what matters most to us. The […]

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Spreading Love Over Fear

Our world is in an unstable state. Across the globe, our spiritual, emotional, and physical being – our sacred being – is at risk as there are becoming fewer people and places worldwide who are not yet affected by Covid-19. At times it feels like we are “under attack” by this virus as we scramble […]

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The Stigma of Racism on Blacks

During a recent course in my graduate program of study, I was given an assignment to write on attacks of sacred sites. I thought of the attack on Historic Black churches here in the US, which is also an attack on Black lives. That’s it: This is a story about hatred. Racism is at the […]

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The Murder of Floyd

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Police Officer has set American race relations back at least 50 years. This pandemic of violence against Black and Brown communities dates back to the very founding of our nation. We are a country built on stolen land and stolen labor rooted in violence and […]

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