Meeting the Moment with Conviction, Curiosity, and Courage

Happy Sunday, Middle, and Blessed Lent! When I was in elementary school, back in Indiana, we had tornado drills. Our classes would file out into the hallway and sit alongside […]
Lent: Love is Calling Us Home

Beloved, Lent is a reckoning. A time to tell the truth about the world as it is—and about the world we are called to build. It’s a season where we […]
Waking and Rising

Today is Transfiguration Sunday. This year, the concept of transfiguration–this idea of change–is bringing me back to seeing Wicked in theaters this winter. “Something has changed within me. Something is […]
Everyday Insistence

Happy Sunday, Middle! We made it to February! Phew, January was the longest year EVER! With all that’s happening with the new administration, it honestly feels like a year’s worth of trauma […]
Love One Another

Happy Sunday, Middle! I pray this email finds you as well as can be as we near the end of the first month of the year. (How are we here […]
Building Beloved Community

In this season of uncertainty, it is comforting to know that some things will be as they have always been. They will not and cannot end because they did not […]
Stars and Dreams

Happy New Year, Middle! We’re almost to the end of our Twelve Days of Christmas “Gifts to Bring” emails. Have you enjoyed the gifts? I always think it’s fun to […]
On the 10th Day of Christmas

Hey, Middle! Happy New Year! I’ve never been one for resolutions. Admittedly, I’ve always been very bad at keeping to the resolutions I make. In the last few years I’ve loved seeing […]
Each Baby a Possibility

Happy New Year! Blessed Kwanzaa! I hope as you read this, you are in a good space, a space of imagining your life in the new year, and seeing it […]
This One Child: Transformed by Joy

So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the child lying in the manger. – Luke 2.16 Happy Sunday, Middle Family! Here we are again with haste […]