I’m telling you to #ShutTheHellUp

Advent is approaching. This year, the digital discipline continues with new contributors, a new premise, and a new hashtag.

Day One.

“Woke” AF. Mark 13:37

Today begins Advent, the season of preparing for not just the Christ child in the manger, but also the second coming of Christ, come to reconcile the world into the fullness and God intended God’s original creation to be. Today also begins…

Day Eight.

Unsettled. Mark 1:2–3.

Mark’s Gospel starts with a bang. Its words pierce the first-century skies of Palestine. We rarely read — or hear — it that way, however. It’s been shut up for so long, hidden beneath layers of pious sentimentality, sanitized by what my friend…

#FuckThisShit goes #LentLite

As we enter into the season of Lent, #FuckThisShit will have a limited series called #LentLite. The content for #LentLite will not be as structured as the Advent devotional, nor will it be daily. Some of the previous contributors are returning to offer brief reflections about…

Day Four.

Contempt. Psalm 79:4.

We welcome Chawanna Chambers (Twitter: @DrChaeEd) as our #ShutTheHellUp voice on this fourth day of Advent. She is mother to two and wife to one — incredible beings who teach her daily that constant self-reflection is essential to growth. When…

Day Fourteen.

Un-fucking-believable. Matthew 21:32.

“ John came to you showing you the right road. You turned up your noses at him, but the crooks and whores believed him. Even when you saw their changed lives, you didn’t care enough to change and believe him.” 
 —…

Day Two.

Defile. Psalm 79:1.

When I think about temples, my mind immediately travels to flesh and blood bodies as sacred temples, created in God’s holy and diverse image. Over the course of time, I think about how these temples have been named as marred and unholy.

#LentLite: God Learns Too, Ya’ Know…

Coming to the story of the Garden of Eden always leaves me a little perplexed, if not flat out…

Day Three.

Perish. Micah 4:9.

Callid Keefe-Perry is a minister within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). He is an organizational consultant, retreat leader, and teacher of discernment deeply influenced by both Quakerism and Ignatian spirituality. He is the author of Way to…

Day Twelve.

(Be)Longing. Psalm 126:6.

Those who cry
 as they carry out the seeds
will…