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Carolyn Moore

Curing pride (or, what makes us real)

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. — Thomas Merton Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let

How to spark a mission revival (without nickel-and-diming your people to death)

Five years ago, our church hosted its first Global Impact Celebration. That weekend “mission revival” event was the culmination of about a year’s worth of work to get our mission

Finish what you started (or, the most powerful three-letter word in the Bible)

But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. – 2 Timothy 4:5 This is quite

What grace feels like (or, what I learned from a roomful of missionaries)

I spent seven days in Costa Rica with about 95 missionaries and assorted others who support them through The Mission Society. I had the great pleasure of teaching daily on

Why I stopped doing church (or, how repentance got me off the pew)

This one is about when my family changed churches when I was five years old. We were a family of eight, but my mother and I were the only ones

Do you have “doing sickness”?

(This post by me was first published at www.seedbed.com.) She was not a fence-sitter. This was someone who knew how to make things happen. A solid church leader steeped in

What a farm fence taught me about life and resolutions

I am remembering a walk one day along the fence line of a family farm. The farm has since passed to other hands, but the lessons of that fence have

The birthplace of meaning

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small …” – Micah 5:2 For such a small place, Bethlehem holds a mountain of meaning. The Hebrew word has two parts. The

Make a spectacle of yourself.

Sometimes God uses spectacles. An overly bright star. A cast of angels. A talking donkey. A burning bush. Sometimes, he makes us the spectacle. In this season, radical kindness would

The DNA of the Church

In the final verses of Exodus, of all places, we find the first hints of Pentecost. The people have just pulled together all their resources to build a tabernacle for the

Crazy, or Courageous? (or, why I keep going to work)

You don’t want to be me. According to a series of New York Times articles* and a plethora of other studies** done on the topic, pastors are ticking time bombs. Here

In 2009, Washington State ratified the Death with Dignity Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide. “This act allows terminally ill adults seeking to end their life to request lethal doses of medication