During Seminary, another student and I, interned at a tiny, historic, Methodist church in New Jersey. She was Methodist, I was not; but we were both welcomed into the fold in equal measure. The congregation was small and aged and the thing they appreciated...
The Communion with God is simple, so we will not be dazzled; so we can eat and drink His love and still go about our lives; so our souls will burn slowly rather than blaze. . . . the Last Supper did not take place on one night in one room, and to eat God’s...
(This isn’t the fox I drew, but rather one I found online to work from – isn’t it charming delightful?) Last week I started work on a painting I planned to give to a friend. Standing at the old sink in the Little House (where my office is) I...
Thursday morning I printed off a how to manual for formatting the inside of a book and sat outside highlighting the parts I thought would apply to the job ahead of me that afternoon. It was a beautiful fall day, enough to warrant (in my mind) printing the 70...
My church’s interim pastor, Jay McDermond, spoke on the life of Peter last Sunday, spending much of his time focusing on Peter’s less admirable qualities. (I believe the words “bone head” may have been employed.) By human standards, Peter probably wasn’t the...
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