Christ Dying With Us on Good Friday
“I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live” (Galatians 2:20). I think I’m supposed to be encouraged by these words of Paul. But if I’m honest, I’ve…
Love Demands Creativity
“Love demands creativity” --Makoto Fujimura, Art+Faith: A Theology of Making, p. 63 // Love always generates. Always pours forth. Always emanates in abundance. This love originates not in us, but in…
Why It Isn’t Sexist to Call God ‘Father’
I’m working on a new book these days, and this week’s work has me digging into the way Jesus changes these terms, the way he insists that we each come…
How Love Is Like a Vaccine
What if love is like a vaccine against fear? Many of us approach this Inauguration Day with hope. Hope that we will turn a corner on this pandemic. Hope for…
I’m Writing a New Book! Really and Truly!
So I’m really and truly working on a new book after letting it simmer in my brain and heart for the past few years. I don’t have a title yet,…
Love Your Enemies
Imagine being a leader of a school or a church or a community with a staff that included a white man wearing a MAGA hat and a Black woman wearing…
AJB Recommends: How to Love Across Divisions
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to love people across the various divisions we experience right now, and these podcasts and articles have been helpful to me:…
S3 E20 | When Love Is Our Home, Healing Begins
Do we want to get well? Within the reality of the harm of privilege and ongoing division, Amy Julia concludes this season of the podcast by examining how healing begins…
Uncertainty, Control, and the Election
We awoke to uncertainty, and I find myself wrestling with uncertainty, control, and the election. There is a part of me that wants to say, “God is in control,” as…
S3 E13 | Privilege, Wealth, and the Christ-Shaped Life with Paul Miller
How does the pattern of Jesus’ life reshape privilege, wealth, and community? Paul Miller, author of “J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life,” talks with Amy Julia about the…
