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Watson: Gathering the Stones

Watson: Deeper than charity

Reparations is a chilling word to most white people. An aggressive, accusatory word that will have many people skipping over this column before they finish

Hillary Watson

June 5, 2017

Watson: Generations at odds?

The older generation always thinks the younger generation is going to pot. I hear this statement regularly in the church, repeated by the older generation

Hillary Watson

April 24, 2017

Watson: High-fiber activism

“Every time I leave one of these, I have a headache,” a woman groaned as we left the community town hall meeting. More than 150

Hillary Watson

March 13, 2017

Watson: In defense of football

For many of us, January’s cold snaps and post-holiday haze mark an important annual ritual: playoffs in the National Football League. It is an event

Hillary Watson

January 30, 2017

Watson: I’ll take the pat-down

I am slow going through airport security. I tend to hold up the line. Confuse other passengers. Disrupt the TSA agents. That is because I

Hillary Watson

December 19, 2016

Watson: Love the land together

Recently, in an endless Facebook scroll, I saw the phrase “reintegration of Trump voters.” The phrase, now lost to the annals of endless scrolls, stuck

Hillary Watson

November 7, 2016

Watson: Suburbs, city of God?

In most circles, theological ones included, the suburbs are spoken of as the illegitimate child of urban and rural life — and with good reason.

Hillary Watson

September 26, 2016

The economy of Jesus

Capitalism is killing Christianity. When a seminary friend first suggested this theory to me a year ago, I thought it was overblown. I have no

Hillary Watson

August 15, 2016

Still hoping, trusting

Early in my teen years, I asked myself if I really wanted to belong to the Mennonite church or if I was doing it out

Hillary Watson

July 4, 2016

Sanders says it

Two months ago at Sent, the Anabaptist church-planting conference, I spoke with some young church plant­ers about what brings millennials to church. “May­be we should

Hillary Watson

May 23, 2016

Seminary debt is church’s burden

When people ask why I, a lifelong Mennonite, chose not to get my graduate degree at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, I usually offer the easy

Hillary Watson

April 11, 2016

Dressing for the role

When I signed my first pastoral contract and began trading my Atlanta wardrobe for suburban Chicago, I took a long look in my closet and

Hillary Watson

February 29, 2016
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