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Stringing Words Together
Today I had the opportunity to work with a gifted poet and about 30 women in my congregation, using words to engage worship in a new way. We used the framework of a French Pantoum to prompt aspiring...
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What Are You Confessing?
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture Barbara Rossing gave at Oregon State University entitled, “St. Francis Goes Swimming with the Salmon: Ancient Wisdom for a Planet in Peril.” I’ve followed...
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Table Manners
My church engages in the Eucharist once a month … the first Sunday of every month. I think it’s a bit too infrequent, honestly. Sharing the table is the most equalizing, welcoming, unifying, and...
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Virgin Birth
One of my worst character traits is that I need to know more stuff than everyone else does. In the classroom this meant that I needed to catch every reference to every obscure scholar dropped by a...
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Climate Change, Moral Evil, and Hope
Last week I wrote a note to my congregation in our weekly newsletter about vision in the context of Isaiah 65:17-25. I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalyptic texts, lately. Mostly about how the...
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Darkness During Advent
For too many reasons that are either uninteresting or involved to write about, this Advent has been unusually dark for me. The good thing about dwelling in darkness during Advent is that it works out...
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In Case You Really Wanted a John the Baptist Sermon …
For folks in my congregation, the second Sunday of Advent was spent at home (except for the handful of good souls who were at the church fixing the damage of broken pipes). In the Willamette Valley,...
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Walking Toward the Light
As we enter the season of Epiphany and the theme of light and brightness has entered the shadowlands, I thought I would write about how I have journeyed toward the light during what has been an...
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A Poem for Night Travelers
For my kindred ones who also find themselves traveling by night, from Jan Richardson’s Epiphany meditations: Night Map All the time you have spent in the dark: did you think it wasted? I tell you the...
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Holding Space in the Weight of Time
A few years ago, I found myself in conversation with a wise, older woman. She was a midwife and I was asking her about her work and in turn, she asked me if I wanted to have children some day....
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