Blog We Have to Talk about Economics I hate to say this, but we’re going to have to talk about economics in church.Debra RienstraMay 27, 2023
Blog Lie Detecting I wonder: Would knowing when people are lying be a gift? Or would it just make life worse?Debra RienstraMay 13, 2023
Blog Everyone Wants to Play God: Extrapolations and a Climate-Bleak Future The episodes are short-story-style vignettes, introducing mostly new characters, different climate-related scenarios, and a tangled web of ethical dilemmas.Debra RienstraApril 15, 2023
Blog An Inspiring Message about Palm Sunday Wow, I didn’t know that Palm Sunday was about openness, inclusion, and tolerance. Something to reflect on, I guess. What…Debra RienstraApril 1, 2023
Blog Truth-Listening in the American South I’ll be processing this experience for a long time, but for now I'll share just a few key words that…Debra RienstraMarch 18, 2023
Blog Why Does Religion Get in the Way of Climate Action? Depending on which corners of the church you hang around in, you might notice anything from heavy-duty activism to climate…Debra RienstraFebruary 18, 2023
Blog Threshold It never occurred to him to see me, exhausted and falling to pieces, alone in that room with my mother…Debra RienstraFebruary 4, 2023
Blog Chaptering Our Lives Best-selling memoirs tend to tell big, dramatic stories—getting sober, the messy divorce, the cancer diagnosis, the series of lovers, living…Debra RienstraJanuary 21, 2023
Blog Church of Empire, Church of Refugia, 2047 and Beyond We’re all speculating here, I guess, with the understanding that the speculation is itself a process of hope: what do…Debra RienstraJanuary 7, 2023
Blog The Re-Gifts of the Magi: A Tiny Christmas Fantasia A journey to who-knows-where to see who-knows-what without the proper supplies. We’re crazy.Debra RienstraDecember 24, 2022