Happy 6th day of Christmas everyone. I have been meditating this week on the “other side” of Christmas. When our foremothers and forefathers of the Christian faith designed the holy calendar, they made some opulent choices when it came to Christmas. Think about it. There are four weeks dedicated to Advent leading up to Christmas […]
It is a story of good cheer. It is a story of marginalized people in a forgotten corner of the world. It is story of love overcoming power. It is a story of those who tend to critters coming together with gift-giving travelers. It is the story of a dream… a dream of a better […]
The Magi knew better than to show up empty handed. Advent has become one of my favorite times of year, but that was not always so. When I was a child Advebnt meant little more than a chance to open little doors in a Hallmark calendar to find wax-flavored chocolates behind. That was then. Today, […]
On today’s episode of #OffTheHighway, I interview Brandon Rhodes of Springwater Community and The Parish Collective. One of the topics we wander into is the concept of Church branding. Brandon tells lovely stories about acts of goodness and beauty happening all around his neighborhood and how he and his community of faith are seeking to […]
“The city has been trying to shut us down” -Pastor Serenity Domenico . . . . We are in Oklahoma visiting my sister’s family. A few years back, I was speaking at John Brown University. It was there that we met Serenity, at the time just a struggling student, not struggling so much with school, […]
In Part 1, we shared about a few things we don’t care that much about. Read those here. In Part 2, we shared imaginations about the weekly worship gathering. Read those here. Part 3… We (Aimee and Tony Kriz) are not church-goers. To be specific, currently, we do not regularly attend a brick-and-mortar church’s services […]
Yesterday, Franklin Graham called all Christians to ban pro-LGBT friendly companies… And Christians are rising up to protest. Today, Tony Campolo makes a public call for Christians to support Gay Marriage… And Christians are rising up in protest. Graham. Campolo. Are there two names more associated with Evangelicalism in America over the last 50 years? […]
A decade ago, Donald Miller wrote our story… he wrote about a Confession Booth at Reed College. When Don wrote it, the entire story consisted of only a few paragraphs and it started a social movement that no one could have predicted. Over the years I have been asked many times to write a more […]
I went with my boys to the #BlackHistoryMonth celebration last evening at their grade school. It was a great event: food, music, dance, drumming and of course, community. My boys have the great privilege of going to a school where, as I looked around the room last night (and I could not stop myself from […]
I am surprised to be writing from Washington DC and the National Prayer Breakfast. This is not my first time here, but only a week ago, I did not know that I would be sitting here today. One of the great experiences at the NPB is the Middle East Breakfast, held the day before the […]
