Rev. Jeanelle N. Ablola is actively helping me reshape what matters about identity "I don't want to try to belong where I don't anymore, but I want to have conversations that lead to relationship." I am learning so much #EvolvingFaith2022

.R. Eric Thomas with that TSA precheck joke. Feeling it in. My. Soul. (Looking at you, Justin Moore) #EvolvingFaith2022

.R. Eric Thomas "I grew up in a church where all I wanted was to believe enough to belong." For different reasons, same. #EvolvingFaith2022

Yes and amen.

Conversation around rootedness in liminal, shifting, migratory places makes me think of Rich Mullin's song, Land of My Sojourn. This land is my country, but it's not my home. #EvolvingFaith2022

#EvolvingFaith2022 Evolving Faith thank you. To listen to and learn from such a diverse group of wise, courageous, compassionate, honest, and (shockingly!) patient people is a gift beyond measure. I am overflowing, energized, and stunned into seeing in new ways.

Needed another 30 min in that breakout session on disagreement. So good (and I caught up with an old friend who was in the same session!) #EvolvingFaith2022

"Even in the midst of a miracle, we find something to complain about" #EvolvingFaith2022 Marco Saavedra is calling me out!

.Reverend Professor 🍉 "our justice work was really charity work. We just wanted to give everyone what we had so they'd be respectable like us ... [This was] our filthy rags righteousness." Wow. Spot on. #EvolvingFaith2022

"Malnourished on corn syrup Christianity." Reverend Professor 🍉 What a perfect description. #EvolvingFaith2022

“I was malnourished by a high-fructose corn-syrupy theology diet of Christianity that traded moral courage and the risk of state execution for bully pulpits that were pretty and big enough to hide all of the sexual, economic and ethical abuse." Reverend Professor 🍉 #EvolvingFaith2022

"My faith has not mended my broken heart. God has not fulfilled all of my longings. I feel like I make my bed in the wilderness." Reverend Professor 🍉 #EvolvingFaith2022

"The more Jesus settled into his call, the more trouble he was in. ... From the start he was a doomed man. A life with Jesus is a life of downward mobility. It is a life of intimacy with hopelessness." Reverend Professor 🍉 #EvolvingFaith2022

"How offensive are you? Do you find more time trying to find the right applesauce for the hard pills that you’re preaching and teaching than summoning the courage you’ll need to preach and teach?" Reverend Professor 🍉 #EvolvingFaith2022

The Gospel has nothing to do with becoming successful or with self-preservation of any kind. Will you engage in justice work that's more than exchanging one rung for another on the ladder of white righteousness Reverend Professor 🍉 #EvolvingFaith2022

How is each speaker more powerful and prophetic than the next?? I will need to listen to that word from Reverend Professor 🍉 about a billion more times #EvolvingFaith2022

#EvolvingFaith2022 @SarahBessey coming in hot naming our collective anger, exhaustion, shame, doubt, exclusion, confusion, grief. Holding space for each of us.

Oh, @SarahBessey, cracking it all wide open. Finding all that life burried deep inside our grief. Oh, my heart #EvolvingFaith2022

Remind us that any belonging that requires us to sacrifice any aspect of our true selves at the altar is not belonging, it is bondage. Cole Arthur Riley #EvolvingFaith2022

.Prop throwing shade on papyrus font makes me sing #evolvingfaith2022