School started back up this week and with it some routines. After K2 gets on the bus I usually head off for a walk. This week I’ve been catching up with some of the podcasts from The GodComplex Radio. Carol Howard Merritt and Bruce Reyes-Chow are two PCUSA pastors on opposite coasts who have put [...]
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Back to School in More Ways than One
Posted in PCUSA, Theology, faith, tagged Bruce Reyes-Chow, Calvin, Carol Howard Merritt, Garrett Evangelical, GodComplex Radio, PCUSA, Stephen Ray on August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Deep and Wide
Posted in PCUSA, community, faith on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Go read this post. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go. Read. It. Now.
http://www.achurchforstarvingartists.com/2009/07/more-than-1-way-of-being-christian.html
Jan is a great pastor, wonderful writer, and friend and colleague I treasure.
What’s Your Image of “Church?”
Posted in faith, musings, tagged big tent, church, el campesino, pioneer church on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If it’s Thursday it must be El Campesino. It started well before our arrival and has grown over the last few years. Now you’ll find 20-40 Pioneer folks gathered in a room set-aside by the owner. Chips, salsa, and margaritas flow. Folks who have never touched mexican food in their lives and could probably do without it have joined the [...]
Memorial Day and Being a Pastor
Posted in faith, musings, tagged memorial day, pastor on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I receieved a frantic phone call on Friday: “The pastor who was suppose to pray on Monday had surgery for throat cancer. Do you know anyone who could come?” “Would they mind a woman?”, was my response, trying to be sensitive to expectations (and maybe hoping Jeff would go instead!).
I am glad I went. I’m [...]
Gratitude for the South
Posted in faith, musings, tagged Amy-Jill Levine, Great Emergence, the South on May 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had a wonderful time in Nashville this last week with eleven amazing women. We studied with Amy-Jill Levine, read the Great Emergence, ate some wonderful meals, laughed until our sides ached, cried with and for one another, prayed, and renewed our souls. It was pure gift. It was an honor to be included and [...]
Violence and the Cross
Posted in faith, musings on May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never been one to wear a cross. I have a handful of them in my dresser that have been gifts to me on various occasions. Partly, it is because I’m not much of a jewelry person. A greater part of it is what that cross means and how it has been usurped by Christians [...]
This I Believe – Reflections on the Journey
Posted in faith, musings, sermons, tagged community, Easter, Expression of Faith, Lent, parker palmer, Statement of Faith, This I Believe on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It has been a wonderful Lenten journey and now, on the other side of Resurrection Sunday, I am finding my soul nourished by the expressions of faith so many in our congregation shared with such beauty and power.
Long before we became pastors of this church we began a list of dreams we hoped to use someday when [...]
A Challenging Blessing
Posted in faith, musings on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I receive a daily email from Inward/Outward. It is a publication from The Church of the Savior in D.C. This one grabbed me the other day…
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, [...]
“Whatcha Giving up for Lent?”
Posted in faith, musings, tagged Cleveland Plain Dealer, Devotion, Discipline, Facebook, Lent, Regina Brett on February 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m afraid we might be missing the point. Ash Wednesday is approaching and the conversations have begun again. Too often they begin with this question: whatcha giving up for Lent? This might be just me but I tire of the underlying, none-to-subtle “competition” that comes with the question. It very well could be that I’m [...]
If I was asked to pray at the inauguration…
Posted in PCUSA, faith, musings, politics on January 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In case anyone is wondering, if I had been asked to pray at the Inauguration I would not have closed with the Lord’s Prayer. I know I’m making a number of assumptions here but I didn’t want any of you (all 3 of you who read this blog!) to lose sleep over this.
Here is why: [...]
