Is It Worth It, No Matter What?
March 26, 2023 Something has really been bugging me this Lenten season. I have tried to ‘let it go’, but no luck. I have run my thoughts by some of my friends in the classes I facilitate and participate in only to make everyone a bit uncomfortable. Still, I just can’t seem to let it…
Letting Go
March 13, 2023 I believe we are going through a time of great spiritual weirdness right now. People are co-opting Christ by using Christianity as a battering ram for personal agendas and man ’splaining/woman ’splaining Jesus’ teachings to validate whatever they choose to belief. Jesus has been put in a ‘human Jesus box’ of sorts –…
Carrying the Cross: Have We Misunderstood?
February 20, 2023 I can’t believe Lent’s almost here! It’s that time in the church year when we’re invited to reflect on Christ’s sacrificial love for us and sit in the profundity of that sacrifice. The Lenten journey starts with Ash Wednesday when we recall the stark truth of our own mortality. “Remember that you are dust and…
Quiet Eyes
August 16, 2022 “Forgive them, Father. They don’t know what they’re doing.” (Luke 23:34) I am convinced that these are among the most powerful words ever spoken by our Lord. They are words spoken from the cross. Words spoken when the Lord felt most alone. Words spoken when the Lord could see no obvious assurance…
Diagnosticians, Clinicians, and Cheerleaders
May 29, 2022 I have waited, watched, and listened as much as possible over the past couple of weeks, following the shootings at the Topps Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, the shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, and now at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. I have listened for…
So Many Mothers!
May 8, 2022 Mother’s Day can be a very difficult time for many who have less than Hallmark moment ‘mom’ experiences in their own lives. I know women who avoid church on ‘the day’ because it’s too painful: they either feel left out of the celebration or find it all to be a glorified sham,…
Co-opting Christ
April 17, 2022 What happens when you know you need to say something…..but you don’t? I mean, you have your reasons, right? You don’t want to be judgey … or be judged. What will people think? What will people say? Sometimes speaking truth is a fearful thing… So, sometimes we say nothing… This is where the women in Mark’s gospel…
Relax – You Fit!
April 2, 2022 The struggle to fit in seems to be common to the human condition. No matter our physical, racial, sexual, relational, economic, social, employment, zip code or any other ‘fitting in’ criteria that might be out there, ‘fitting in’ is a struggle for everyone. The ’fat’ struggle to be skinny. The ‘skinny’ and…
What the Wilderness Reveals
March 12, 2022 Wilderness. A harsh place. An abandoned place. An uninhabited place. A neglected place. Throughout history, people have gone into the wilderness to ‘find themselves,’ to spend undistracted time examining their thoughts, testing their character, attending to those neglected parts of themselves in need of care. Wilderness is the place where the ‘who’…
The Unexpected Pop-Up Village
February 26, 2022 Ecclesiastes 4:4-12; Isaiah 49:15-16 I have written about villages before. Perhaps we’re familiar with the African proverb of Igbo and Yoruba origin that states: it takes a village to raise a child. The expression conjures up visions of family, friends, those and in our immediate relational community whose ‘assumed job’ it is to care. They…
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