Calling Audibles Part XXII: Moral High Ground and Shifting Sands
“If the LORD does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless.” –Psalm 127: 1 The NCAA has taken a stand against the culture of football at Penn State. Their attempt to take the moral...
View ArticleCalling Audibles Part XXIII: The Anatomy of the Asterisk
“White people are accountable for the ways in which we fail to hear and understand the needs and claims that other communities make upon us… white learning [often] comes at the expense of those already...
View ArticleLiving Liminality: Of Thresholds and Dwelling Places
A version of this post is the first of my contributions to the Feminism and Religion blog on which I will be a quarterly contributor. Sometimes I think it happened gradually. Other times it feels...
View ArticleCareful What You Ask For
I preached this sermon at Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, NC on October 21, 2012. The scripture passage for the day was The Gospel of Mark 10: 35-45. The sermon is really about all of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Politicians about Rape
Dear Politicians: My name is Marcia. I am 43 years old and I am a rape survivor. I am lots of other things, too: a mother, a pastor, a wife, a theologian. But most of all today, writing to all of you,...
View ArticleThe Way is Made by Walking
“I come from a place, I am going to a place, I am and I am.” -Jo Carson We came from California, Georgia, Utah, Michigan, North Carolina, and New Mexico. We came from New Jersey, Illinois, Kentucky,...
View ArticleThe Petraeus scandal has me wondering about the “David Syndrome”
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like we’re all in Junior High or High School again with the Petraeus scandal? There is drama at every turn with boundaries crossed and accusations slung across...
View ArticleThanks, Amazing Student Athletes from John Shoop
My husband, Coach John Shoop, has been writing for Chapelboro.com this fall about Triangle area college football. The articles have generally been a coach's perspective on things like game...
View ArticleWilderness Voices
Advent is a time of waiting, a wilderness wandering time. This sermon, “WILDERNESS VOICES,” draws from passages in Malachi 3:1-4 and The Gospel of Luke 3:1-6. I preached it at New Hope Presbyterian...
View ArticleNew way to subscribe to the blog!
Many of you were subscribed to this blog and receiving email notifications of blog posts. We have switched our mail system to better serve you and to increase this website’s capacity to reach out to...
View ArticleBeing Anti-Racist in 2013– Happy Birthday, Dr. King
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of the skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! ~ Dr....
View ArticleTruth and Consequences: This Feminist’s Perspective?
I am a quarterly contributor to the Feminism and Religion Blog. My post this time around asks the same question Pilate asked Jesus: "What is truth?" I hope you'll read the post and join the...
View ArticleJesus, The Missing Years
I preached this sermon, JESUS, THE MISSING YEARS, on Luke 2:22-40, at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines, NC on February 3, 2013. Jesus…. the missing years[1] That’s how...
View ArticleV-Day–One Billion Rising
On Valentine's Day, February 14, all around the world people will be gathering to take a stand, to heal, and to speak out on violence against women. Chances are there is an event near you. Go to the...
View ArticleImportant Study about Race and Privilege in America
One of the characteristics of white privilege is that it is intended to be and often is invisible. And white culture benefits without trying to discriminate, even with intentions of fairness and...
View ArticleHoly Saturday’s Song
Today, brothers and sisters of the Jesus-named faith, You must stop and hear the still of death The Holy One takes in no oxygen and blood does not flow Flesh grown cold Still, you and I, be still If...
View ArticleCourage
Before this “day after” the Boston Marathon bombing had a chance to see morning light, my eight year old daughter called out for me. It was a nightmare that woke her from her sleep. I always ask, in...
View ArticleAnnouncing A Retreat for Women: Wandering Home
There are many practicing Christians today who wonder where we fit into the world of church. More and more people understand themselves as on a spiritual journey, but don't understand institutional...
View ArticleFeminism and Football
I am a quarterly blogger on the Feminism and Religion website. My post up this week is on how race and privilege affected the NCAA investigation of the football program at University of North...
View ArticleTo Be Well
The Gospel of John, Chapter 5, verses 1-9 is the text for this sermon preached on May 5, 2013 at Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, NC. “Do you want to be made well?” Jesus’...
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