Let the Lament Come
The grocery store has become my dirge. A lament for the life that no longer exists. Every time I go, I’m overcome by tears. While...
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Holding the Tension of Holy Saturday
Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a poignant conversation about making space for the tension and grief of Holy Saturday. In the protestant...
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Holy Ground
Holy ground, where are you now? The place Jesus stood before the High Priest… Do you still remember? Where are you, dirt, which the...
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Preparing for Holy Week in a Season of Fragmentation
We find ourselves in the midst of a collective trauma that both exposes, overwhelms, and compounds suffering. In this new reality, as we come upon...
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Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic, Part Three
Our world continues to change in monumental ways. In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender engage the implications and anxieties of Covid-19,...
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Honoring Our Embodied Trauma in the Midst of a Pandemic
How are your bodies and hearts right now, friends? I don’t know a single person right now that isn’t enduring some sort of loss. Perhaps...
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Trees, Hope, And Waiting For Sunday
I sometimes want to be a tree. I want to blow in the breeze, feel the rain on my branches, shelter birds and squirrels and...
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What Does it Mean to Submit to Authority?
In their final conversation about authority, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender return to complex waters to discuss mutual submission, what good authority looks...
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