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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” For a couple of […]

I was eleven years old the first time I had a conversation about homosexuality. It was at the family dinner

I grew up in a small, rural Presbyterian church.  The sort of place that reinforces all the stereotypes of small,

The Ohio Region of the DOC requires all clergy to attend an Antiracism/Pro Reconciliation training event in order to keep

After graduating from Brite Divinity School and becoming an ordained minister in 2008, I was excited about entering the search

One of the most formative classes in my educational career was “Post-Holocaust Theology,” taught by Clark Williamson at Christian Theological

It was a Methodist church; a United Methodist Church to be more specific. The Sunday school question was “what part

The single most liberating moment of my ministry was saying yes to the call from First Christian Church in Lynchburg,

According to the gospel of Tina Fey, “the fun is always on the other side of a ‘yes.’ In her

Pastor of Christ’s Church, Anywhere, USA: “Hey, Derek! How’s it going? I’ve seen what you guys are doing at your

He fumed about gay (white) men being the most oppressed group in the Disciples because our version of middle management

For several years I have volunteered as director of a ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and I