This post is a personal confession.  I have been in hiding.  I know God called me to minister boldly as a part of the church universal but I have been hiding behind my non-profit and under my “Executive Director” title.  I have been hanging out in the margins with people who let me be...

I just finished Scot McKight’s book titled, “Junia is not Alone.”  In the book he provides us with an illustration of how the voice of women who served in levels of leadership throughout biblical history have been silenced, with Junia being just one such woman.  Reference to the...

If you had asked me when I was 25 why I did not go to church, I would likely have answered, “Why should I?”  I had grown up totally un-churched and for me church was irrelevant. At the age of 26, after three miscarriages, God became relevant.  I discovered the one thing this type A...

Last March we moved our Embrace Richmond corporate offices onto the campus of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR).   I love being at BTSR.  It has allowed me to have greater contact with the seminary community.  In the past two weeks, I have participated in several classes and...

I got very excited when I read these words in a post titled, On Planting Churches That Do Not Cannibalize: The Luke 10 Project, by David Fitch: Let’s stop funding church plants (has anyone noticed it ain’t working?) and fund missionaries here in North America. We need to seed fresh...

Embrace Richmond is in an interesting season.  Our co-laborer, Reverend Janie Walker, is leaving Embrace Richmond to start a new expression of church in the Hillside Court area.  It will not look anything like the traditional images of church.  It will be a collaborative effort of many...

Rob Bell’s newest book “Love Wins” has set off a fire storm of ridicule and name calling from the religious right.  In an effort to take the high road in this debate, Rachel Held Evans has invited bloggers to participate in a Synchroblog which she has titled “The Rally to Restore...

photo © 2010 Vards Uzvards | more info (via: Wylio)I have wanted to write this post for a very long time, but was too afraid of the possible backlash from some segments of the Christian tradition.  However, all the hype over, “whether Rob Bell is a Universalist or not”, finally gave me...

Do you remember this scene from the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?” “Is he a man?”, asked Lucy. “Aslan, a man?”, said Mr.Beaver sternly. “Certainly not. I tell you, He is the King of the wood and the son of the...

photo © 1963 The U.S. National Archives | more info (via: Wylio) On MLK Day all across this country countless readings of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” address will be read.  However, it is his words from his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” written on April 16, 1963...

When I explain to people that I work in the inner city and have a call to social justice ministries, I always get stories back about how they know someone who runs a clothing closet, or about how they served in a soup kitchen one time or give money to people on the street.  I have nothing...

Recently a friend of mine shared concern over the fact that her children, who are in their forties, love Christ and live by Christian principals but have little interest in being a part of the institutional church. I read this quote this week over at Emerging Mummy which speaks to why some...