“I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.” John 17:14 Jesus is an alien. An alien, no doubt about it. At least you would think so given the stories the good sisters told me as a…
I had no trouble turning 40. No trouble turning 50. No trouble even turning 60 — but as I approach 70, I can def see there is some trouble ahead. Trouble I have been in deep denial of for a very long time. Of course, I know that people die. Other people, though, not me.…
I just returned from a CREDO conference. It’s kind of like a sleep away camp for clergy. Inclusive of camp activities, camp rituals, and camp songs. If you consider workshops and worship focused on your spiritual, emotional, physical, vocational, and financial well being as super fun camp stuff! Three and a half days of the…
Faith, you may have heard, can be found on the road. Out on the road somehow it is easier to see the light. I am pretty sure that my father found Jesus on the road the first time he took me out for a driving lesson. And for that matter, I think he found Mary and…
I am not by nature a quiet person. Third child in a household of six, I had to speak up loud and clear to be heard. An extrovert par excellence, I am compelled to fill awkward silences in awkward conversations. A social butterfly — who once worked in a library – I was often shushed…
From the Archives: An Easter Post Mary of Magdala had her own name. She was attached to a town but not attached to any man. She was a woman of means –perhaps a weaver, a seamstress, a merchant. We know not — only that she was NOT a prostitute. And out of her purse —…
Lent — the purple season — is fading fast! Fixed on the liturgical calendar, having started on Valentine’s Day, Lent 4 lands on St. Patrick’s Day and Lent 5 follows on the heels of the Spring Equinox. How are you doing with whatever you decided to “give up”? Not so good? That is totally okay.…
In the delightful book, Does God Have a Big Toe, Rabbi Marc Gellman tells us that God called a whole lot of other people before he called Abraham. “First he called Ira. ‘Ira, leave your country and your neighbors and your family and go to a land I will show to you, and I will…
The human heart plans its own way, but the Lord establishes the steps. Proverbs 16:9 Way back in the late 1990s, before some of you were even born, Emmanuel bravely chose to undertake a substantial capital campaign. The parish hall needed a serious rehab, but the real work needed to be done in the sanctuary. In our old sanctuary,…
A number of years ago my husband Jack offered me a challenge. I wrote the words on an index card and kept it taped to the fridge for at least a year. The words were: “If I were not afraid I would…” Tremendous blessings came from allowing myself to imagine not being afraid. The one…
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