God Hears, God Cares
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in…
Commissioned for Greatness
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and…
Dream Big Baby
'In the last days it will be,God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.’…
Never Abandoned
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him,…
Being A Christian in an Age of Pluralism
As our young people (my own 14 year old included) stand on the precipice of adulthood, poised to make an “Adult” decision to affirm their baptism and join our mighty band of Jesus followers through the Rite of Confirmation—I am…
Happy-Freaking-Mother’s Day??
You may have heard me say this before, but as a single parent, a divorced woman, and a pastor—I arrive at Mother’s Day with a little bit of melancholy and a heaping healing of fear and trepidation. My former husband…
Resurrection Activism: Being an Easter People
Resurrection Activism: Being an Easter People Unless you have maintained a media blackout this week you have surely heard of the big splash made by our beloved United Church of Christ in the filing of a law suit in US…
The Three P’s of Easter
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear..., Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’…
Here Are Your Disciples
Friends, It is a busy week. It is a Holy Week. It is a week full of a church's organizational decisions and breathlessness about the future. It is a week of extra worship and extra printing and extra broken hearts. …
In-Between Times
“In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition…