Captain Reverend Mother

  • When You Realize You’re the One Who Remembers

    When You Realize You’re the One Who Remembers

    We find oourselves seated at the head of the table and do not recall being invited. This is not nostalgia. It is vocation.

  • Losing at Life to Win

    Losing at Life to Win

    In a world obsessed with winning, the board game “Life” reveals a deeper truth: the most faithful lives are shaped not by success, but by surrender, resilience, and love.

  • Resurrection… Now what?

    Resurrection… Now what?

    A post-Easter reflection on resurrection, renewal, and spring holidays like Passover, Easter, and Nowruz through a modern, spiritual lens.

  • For Valentine’s Day: A Love Letter to My Friend

    For Valentine’s Day: A Love Letter to My Friend

    A love letter to a friend aching for companionship. On a day made for couples, this letter remembers other forms of love, tender, real, and just as holy.

  • The Move: Making Big Change with Less than Perfect Grace

    “[T]he Children of Israel had to wander in the desert before they reached the Promised Land. And despite all the manna and tambourines, that desert period was a total mess.”

  • Out of This Nettle…

    I wish for a world…strong enough to embrace ever-widening worlds of joy and knowledge and competence, rather than retreating to ever smaller and seemingly safer spaces.

  • Home as a Transitive Verb

    We home each other. We create for one another that essential spark of presence and recognition that allows our brains to know: this is where my heart is; this is where I belong; this is home.

  • Remembering Mom

    “She attended well and faithfully to a few worthy things.”

  • On Men, Male, and Masculinity

    Where—in our wider culture—is the space for men to own their vulnerabilities, to own their feelings of anxiety, fear, grief, and loss?

  • Delivering Our Children: A Mothers’ Day Reflection

    …behind our individual families are infinitely larger forms of connectedness and belonging