“Follow me” – Jesus, over and over in the Gospels When I heard the topic for this month’s synchroblog–”Follow”, I immediately thought of something Richard Rohr said in his book Breathing Underwater, centered on the spirituality of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.  He said “Jesus never said ‘worship me.’...

Even before I became a Christian I had crazy idea embedded inside of me that life was supposed to be pretty clear and easy if you did certain things.  Maybe it was growing up with a single mom who struggled and scraped and believing that “if I got a college...

Hope for Those Hurt by Church For most of us, our faith journey is the most essential thing about us, the closest thing to the core of who we are. So whenever some major shift in perspective rocks our faith, or we’re involved in a conflict involving our faith community,...

A few years ago a young white girl at a prestigious college was beaten to death by her lacrosse captain boyfriend.  I remember reading the story about it because it captured the world’s attention and made it on every major news channel, even the cover of People magazine.   She was...