When I was in my very first call and was still saying I wasn’t sure I was called to be a parent, I led a conversation for the monthly potluck shared by parents and children about faith at home. It felt like a new idea all those ten years ago. Children were supposed to learnContinue reading “Easter at Home with Babies and Toddlers”
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Bit By Bit
It is the First Sunday of Lent and I’m missing church. I miss good preaching. Today I could not push myself out the door to find some place to relish in the mystery of these holy forty days because I didn’t want to hear another bad sermon. I don’t believe that my colleagues are badContinue reading “Bit By Bit”
There’s No Place Like Home
Since I moved to Kansas, I find myself clicking my heels more and more. I have no ruby red slippers but the mantra is the same, “There’s no place like home. There no place like home.” The problem is that I have no idea where home is. This was made clear to me again when IContinue reading “There’s No Place Like Home”
Running Naked
It was only a few weeks ago that I found this beautiful passage from a colleague’s sermon on her blog Spacious Faith. That little passage from her sermon archives inspired what I preached that Sunday. I tend to be in the camp that thinks I have to write something new each time I preach onContinue reading “Running Naked”
Preaching Without a Community Text
For the first time in months, I’ve spent Monday morning studying. I haven’t been in the pulpit for nearly three months but on Sunday I will preach. I will preach at a church I’ve visited just once. It’s a church that I know very little about other than what I saw on that one SundayContinue reading “Preaching Without a Community Text”
Liturgical Lights for Sunday April 5, 2015
After that last supper, after the disciples have deserted and one of them has betrayed all that he once believed to be true, after the one they had been following died the most horrible death one might have imagined then, it will be Sunday. It will be Easter. It’s what happens after — but itContinue reading “Liturgical Lights for Sunday April 5, 2015”
Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 29, 2015
This Sunday brings the palms. Call it a parade. Call it a procession. Call it a protest. Our church people expect to wave palms happily in the air before the resurrection is proclaimed next week. Pastors struggle with this. This is the week that they are busy cranking out bulletins for Holy Week. They areContinue reading “Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 29, 2015”
Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 22, 2015
This new thing began last week. Because writing is good. I like writing. I need to write. I especially need to write liturgy. So here we are again. Here are some Liturgical Lights. The following prayers focus on Matthew 25:31-46 which is the focus passage from the Narrative Lectionary on March 22, 2015. So often, when we hear theseContinue reading “Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 22, 2015”
Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 15, 2015
Toward the end of my last call, I stopped writing liturgy. There were so many other things to do. So very many things. I just didn’t have time. Or I didn’t make time. Because writing liturgy takes time. Lots of time to get the words right. It is holy work. It is holy work thatContinue reading “Liturgical Lights for Sunday March 15, 2015”
In the Middle of the Story
The question always comes up in Bible Study when we find ourselves talking about Jesus. Somewhere in the middle of the Gospel, no matter which Gospel we’re reading, we find ourselves studying a particular passage after he’s born and before the real trial has begun. There’s just been a healing or some other sign. And someoneContinue reading “In the Middle of the Story”
Cooking with Elsa 