An Online/ ITF Hybrid Devotional for the Epiphany Season
We welcome Alicia Crosby as today’s featured voice. Alicia is a lover, healer, cultivator of space, and chaser of all things beautiful, divine, and just. She lives into this through her work with her nonprofit Center for…
Our featured writer today is Jameelah Jones. Jameelah is a black misfit Christian living in the Midwest. She’s an advisor by day and an activist by night. She has two degrees and writes poetry on the back of her graded essays. Follow her on…
We welcome, as featured #ShutTheHellUp contributor, the Rev. Marcus Halley (Twitter: @word_made_FRESH), an Episcopal priest, Rector, writer, runner, and avid reader. He has been a contributor to Grow Christians…
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…
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.
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…
As Jason Chesnut and I preparing for the Advent digital discipline (with the hashtag inspired by Tamika Jancewicz), the prompts for #ShutTheHellUp are now ready for you to ponder. There will also be a PG-rated version called #ShutUp; those prompts are soon on their way.
As a follower of the crucified and resurrected Christ, there will come a day where #FuckThisShit will be reconciled to God.
But we’re not there yet.
