Leeann Younger

I Can’t Go Back to Normal

The American narrative that equates success with self-sufficiency poisons our identity as children of God.

The Sacred Work of True Shalom

I Bring the Voices of My People A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation Chanequa Walker-Barnes Eerdmans, 280 pages Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a professor of

Our Place in the Race

I sat in a room full of church staff as we mourned the loss of a young person to gun violence. One of the women

The Disregarded Gift: Advent Reflection

  The Disregarded Gift With all our focus on Christmas,does the manger still catch us unaware? by Leeann Younger | December 2, 2019 Tanya’s life

Now and Not Yet

By the time you read this, we will have rung in a new year and inaugurated a new president. I might be ready for the

Uncomfortable Shoes

I wear a size six shoe—size six and a half if the shoes are pointy and fabulous

Frozen Ground

I am a fair-weather gardener. I spend many winter days looking out my kitchen windows at the vegetable garden we cut out in the back ten years ago. […]