Understanding #jesusinqueens

We live in a time where we want everything fast and easy—yeh, good, I got—next. Not just our media and our food but our ideas and the possibilities of ideas. Our soundbite culture makes it hard to step back and go, huh, hmmm. Um.

Oh.

This week is Holy Week. And for a lot of people that has great meaning and for a lot of people it has no meaning. For some it is a memory they’d rather forget, and for others something they are almost on the verge of leaning into.

#jesusinqueens gives us all a chance to see some things in a new way.  A bigger way. If you have 10 minutes to spare (and, preferably, a desk or laptop) I invite you to click here, to visit the Gallery, to take in all the faces, all the voices, all the ages and eras and styles. All the beauty and wisdom and power and joy.

#jesusinqueens is a story that’s been lived out through extraordinary women for two thousand years.

#jesusinqueens is a story that’s being rewritten in the lives of extraordinary women even as we speak.

AnneMorrowLindberg

How to join the #jesusinqueens celebration

1) If you haven’t had a chance to look at the website, start there (if you can view it on a full screen, even better). This will give you a sense of the many faces and voices of #jesusinqueens and the size of the “tent” under which we can all come together to celebrate “the royal priesthood.”

2) Take a few minutes to browse through the Gallery. If you find a particular Queen Poster you like and want to share it with folks, message me here or on Facebook and I’ll post it to your wall. I’m keeping the Queens “locked up” for a while because I want folks to see the big picture—all of us together, all nations, all voices, all styles, races, denominations, gifts, ages, and eras. Today’s “royal priesthood” cheered on by “such a great cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1) #jesusinqueens is the same “yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

3) Whenever you gather with your favorite “queens,” snap a pic and post it to your favorite social media sites with the hashtag #jesusinqueens after the caption. This is already starting to happen on Twitter. Thanks to John Sattler for getting the party started!

Thanks to John Sattler for showing his love and support for #jesusinqueens.
Thanks to John Sattler for showing his love and support for #jesusinqueens.

4) If you like what #jesusinqueens is all about, please click on one of the social media buttons on the site and share it with friends.

5) Lastly, I must confess that I came of age with a rotary phone and orchestrating a lot of these details is really challenging. So for all my young Queens who are much more fluent that I am with Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest, I welcome all your help and support. I have sites set up in all those places. Will you follow me there and help bring them to life?

Heather #jesusinqueens

Presenting #jesusinqueens

For the past six months I’ve had something of a passion project on my heart. Over the past eight days it’s become a reality (you can read the whole story in the About section of the site). I hope that it will be and do and morph into “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Eph 3:20). And now, click here to join the #jesusinqueens celebration!

SusillaQUEEN

The Unqualified Yes

“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own, or God’s glory with our own.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Have you ever been to Heaven?

Taize has been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve been thinking about new services, for a variety of churches and small groups around the country. When I noticed that someone had looked this piece up today—a blog I had written nearly 4 years ago—I thought I’d share it anew. Pax

heather choate davis's avatarHeather Choate Davis

Taize altar CU

Me neither. But the sanctuary at Taize may just be the closest thing to it. The walls soar to cathedral heights, but there’s nothing old or gray or obsolete about the beauty here: everything is orange and glowing and rendered with an eye to simplicity. We approach in silence, pick up a songbook and enter the otherwordly space. There are no pews in Taize. All the pilgrims sit on the floor, or on a handful of freestanding wooden kneelers which people learn to arrive early to snag. The center aisle is partitioned off from the two sides by a small row of dried greens that form a divide between the visitors and the brothers, who sat in an order that appeared to be by age, or seniority, in simple wooden chairs along the edges or in kneelers down the center.

In their white robes they entered, one by one, from…

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