Practicing Joy: Pastor Ashley
Who reminds you and what reminds you to look for gratitude? Lean into them. And Joy will be waiting.
45,000 calling for charges to be dropped in MOA Black Lives Matter protest
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) - Members of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis will deliver a petition Tuesday to Bloomington City Attorney Sandra Johnson demanding charges be dropped against the organizers of a protest at the Mall of America last December. The petition has...
Break Open and Repent, My Fellow White Christians
Originally published in The Huffington Post on June 23, 2015. I was supposed to be writing a different sermon when I saw the news that 9 more lives had been lost to white supremacy in Charleston last week. As a white pastor of a predominantly white church in the...
Just a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T: From Adam & Eve to Aretha
There’s a reason one of the central metaphors of Christianity is the Body of Christ and not the Mind of Christ. We are messily fleshy, embodied creatures, as our story from Genesis reminds us…