Here is an article in America Magazine entitled “The Lost Generation” about he loss of young women in our church. It highlights a couple of finding that are not so shocking if you are engaged with people anyway. But one question it asks is how do we draw young women back into the church? I…
http://player.vimeo.com/video/33038352?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0Please click to see a beautiful video about the sanctity of life. Pregnancy is such a scary time, and I really can understand how some people struggle, but my prayer is that people can learn to trust in God who begins and ends all life. All life comes from his love…though sometimes the evidence looks…
My friend Helen has suffered a second stroke in as many months. I was blessed enough to see her a couple of weeks ago being her perky self. Helen is in her mid-seventies and has been enveloped by the Gospel most of her adult life. She is the epitome of Christian dedication and it is…
Facebook ProphetsI hope I linked this right. It is an excellent article about what is happening all over Facebook by Christians. The most un-Christian attitudes are often seen and heard. I am inclined to leave FB because this is the nastier side of it. I don’t like what I see and I don’t want to…
A friend of mine is going through a very difficult time, a life changing time. She has a mentally disabled brother who has been diagnosed with leukemia and is in his last days. He is not sure what is really happening but knows that he is going to die and is afraid he won’t go…
I found a new (to me) resource for us today! Interestingly enough, this is the same theme that we have explored together before (not Rev. Fox and I but in our groups haha) regarding the Church, a scripture reference from John 12:24 about the seed dying to be reborn. That is where I feel we are but…
Today is the 12th day, or the Feast of the Three Kings. When the magi arrive and bring thier gifts to Jesus. The magi, rulers from foreign lands, risk thier lives to come and honor the Ruler of the world. This has always been one of my favorite passages in our collective story. When I was…
Rob Bell’s Parting Epistle to Mars Hill: “Grace + Peace” Cathleen Falsani God’s Politics Blog Sojourners: Celebrating 40 Years of Faith in Action for Social JusticeFound this today and had to share it. Read it all the way through. He is talking to his Mars Hill Community but God is certainly talking to each one…
For so many of us, all of the hard work and the planning is undone within an hour or so and it can make one wonder, “what was that all about?” But I think if we know our story, we recognize that it is about love and about hope and about sharing who we are…
I am sitting here during a very rare moment of quiet. I am in the midst of card writing, baking, wrapping, getting kids where they need and trying to not violate any health dept codes in the meantime! It has been quite an Advent. On one of my errands today I ran into one of my…