An Easter Son-rise Service It's my 30th Ordiversary!* What an amazing journey to witness the wonder of Christ's work from a variety of vantage points: student-disciple, interpreter, companion, and servant-leader. I've been privileged by the call of the Spirit and the people to ponder and pontificate, train and teach, pause and pray, laugh and lament--all … Continue reading 30 Years
A pledge of Allegiance
Over the years, I've written variations of pledges (below). I believe my nation's ideals of the rule of law, the blind scales of justice equitably and fairly applied without fear or favor, the hope of abundance for the tired, the poor, the oppressed; the freedoms guaranteed for faith, speech, due process, property, gathering--and much more--put … Continue reading A pledge of Allegiance
Imagine
In the debate about labor shortages due to deportations people reference farmworkers, housekeeping workers, lawn services, i.e., low skilled labors and entry level jobs. We forget these people had lives before arriving in America. Some worked the farms and some had their own farms. Others supervised their own housekeeping businesses built up from their own … Continue reading Imagine
Blessed Are
"Blessed are ...." Matthew 5: 3-10 The “be-happy" attitudes was a book and sermon series by Robert Schuller during my teen years when faith was something I was eagerly exploring. What a refreshing take on Jesus's teaching of the "beatitudes" or "blessings." I was reading these verses during my earliest awareness of the chaos loose … Continue reading Blessed Are
Praise?
"Praise the LORD,” it says and continues to list the glorious attributes of a God who saves the righteous and vanquishes the wicked. The headlines prove this to be wishful thinking. [Unless]
A New Journey
Hello Friends. I am on the way once again. Here's an update of this week's travel...and after a little R&R I will see you here.
It’s a desert.
After taking a leap of faith into the seabed and across the way, the journey has turned out to be a hot mess. After a year of job-hunting and covid-isolating and random life-simplifying activity, the first discovery of importance is that water is essential to life and food is a necessity for creativity. Life sometimes … Continue reading It’s a desert.
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