Deepening Your Spiritual Journey
Explore reflections that inspire growth, challenge your beliefs, and connect you more profoundly with your faith community.
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Reimagine the Work of Justice
On my first day at Union Theological Seminary, I reflect on what it means to reimagine the work of justice. This journey is both outward and inward—an unbinding from inherited assumptions and a recommitment…
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Christianity Beyond Power: A Call to Love Our Neighbors
Christianity in America too often sides with power instead of the poor. When people of color are kidnapped off the streets by ICE and when NIMBY policies push the homeless further into despair, Christians…
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The Questions That Shape My Theology
Ecclesiastes 2 echoes in my mind as I ask where God is in the midst of grief, leadership, expectation, and forgiveness. The Teacher calls it all vanity, a chasing after the wind, yet I…
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Who Gets to Define Violence? What Revelation, Black Lives Matter, and My Own Blind Spots Taught Me
During Bible study this week, I found myself sitting quietly while others discussed Chapter 2 of Brian K. Blount’s Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation through African American Culture. They offered insights that…
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He Knows My Name
In the garden after the resurrection, Mary Magdalene stood weeping, desperate to find the One she loved. She did not recognize Him until He spoke her name. That single word changed everything. I am…
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Beginning Again: Revelation, Resistance, and the Journey of Listening
Revelation has always been my favorite book of the Bible—a story of hope and healing. This summer, I’m reading Brian K. Blount’s Can I Get a Witness? to listen deeply to the Black church’s…
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Litany of Returning to Mercy: A Day of Honest Repentance
After a day of falling short in love, I returned to Christ through honest confession and prayer. This post offers a reflection on the Incarnation, the dignity of others, and a Litany of Returning…
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Gratitude or Pride? A Reflection on Success and Humility
I have been celebrating a season of joyful milestones, but in the quiet of prayer, I find myself wondering whether I am being perceived as prideful. This reflection explores that tension through the lens…
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The First Step: Teaching as Ministry
As I begin my first solo teaching role at Felician University, I pause to give thanks to God for this sacred opportunity. Teaching Adolescent Psychology is more than a professional milestone—it is a call…
Under the Fig Tree 