I even had to become a pastor to become a feminist. Before I started working, I honestly told people: No, I am not a feminist.

When I first started seminary, I also met evangelical Christians for the first time. Well, not for the first time.

After a full year of closed school buildings and dreadful Zoom school for my little ones, I just couldn’t think straight anymore.

It’s the day to rest. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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Today is not only Bold Woman’s Sunday. It’s also the last day of Black History Month.

The wilderness we didn’t choose. The wilderness something drove us into. Like a place I don’t want to be in. Like the wrong show I accidentally had signed up for.

Sermon from Ash Wednesday.
It’s a tough time for love right now. How do I have the energy to love when my life freezes to mere survival?

When I was a teenager it was a day of disappointment. In college, I never dated anybody who celebrated. It seemed too commercialized to us, too enacted.

All I always wanted was a store-bought princess costume. All I ever got were hand-sewn, beautiful costumes for dressing like a tight-rope artist (no one recognized that, and I had to tell everyone twice!)

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It’s time for a fight scene. With some real action!

A wind that took away my breath for a second. This felt like home! I ran inside, yelling happily: “There is a Rostock wind outside!”

Prophets are often disguised. Hard to distinguish from other ordinary people. Prophets are people of faith, speaking truth to power.

Others have long seen this. Non-Christians who wonder why the radical Christians are the loudest ones. Is this what the majority believes? Or does the actual majority keep silent?

Inspired by Joy Oladokun’s song “i see america”.

Last Wednesday, the church celebrated Epiphany. It’s the day when God turns on the lights and reveals the truth.

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These are the days I hardly have any memories of. It’s the time of the year when trying to reach anybody is hard. No one knows or cares what time it is, or what day.

We thought Easter was hard during the first lockdown. We learned the hard way that Christmas is even harder.