Tag: hope

• Adjusting our Eyes: A Christmas Message

  What follows is my sermon delivered at the  Monmouth College Christmas concert and worship service. [A spot light is turned on me, the rest of the chapel is dark.] Wow. I can’t see a thing.  It’s so dark out there.  I mean I know you’re there—I can hear you breathing, and shifting in your seats, […]

  Teri

  December 2, 2018

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  Christmas, Christmas Message, Darkness, Heather Lanier, hope, Isaiah 9:2-7

• Protecting our Hopefulness

  I just returned from a trip to Washington DC where six students and I studied the issue of mass incarceration.  I will write more about this trip soon, but for now I just want to highlight the inspiring work of Bryan Stevenson.  Stevenson is a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice […]

  Teri

  March 11, 2016

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  Bryan Stevenson, criminal justice system, death penalty, death row, hope, Just Mercy, mass incarceration, the new jim crow, Walter McMillian

• about the church

  I love the Church.  To be clear, I love the old, mainline, rooted in tradition, liturgical, theologically complex, organ-blaring, butt-numbing pew kind of church.  I have given my life to this Church.  I am passionate in her service.  I am emboldened to lead a new generation through her doors.  And yet, sometimes I stop to […]

  Teri

  June 28, 2013

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  certainties, church, facebook, Good News, hope, religion, spiritual practices, this I believe