community – Cooking with Elsa

PRAYER FOR EVERY SCREAM

I love this story of a group of moms meeting up on the track field of their local high school to scream. I am just sad that I didn’t hear about the first meetup. And that living on the other side of the Atlantic makes it really hard for me to show up. I haveContinue reading “PRAYER FOR EVERY SCREAM”

Recipe for Zoom Prayer and Pretzel Making

I want there to be lots of fun options for connection and community in Lent. I have been brainstorming ideas and wondering what is possible while we are still online. I want there to be silliness in this season that is usually so somber. We can do that another year. We can revive that traditionContinue reading “Recipe for Zoom Prayer and Pretzel Making”

Pandemic Prayers for Proper 15

My baby girl took her first unbalanced steps to the dinner table on Sunday night while my toddler has been working hard on her ABCs. She’s curious about these strange shapes. She wants to identify them and has even started drawing her own figures.

Recipe for Gratitude

Many congregations, including the one that I am working with right now as a consultant, care for their members by putting in the mail cards full of love and support when someone has fallen ill or is bereaved. Some congregations have a committee that keeps a stock of stationary for this very purpose. Once aContinue reading “Recipe for Gratitude”

Recipe for Learning to Pray

Last week, I finally finished Carol Howard Merritt’s Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation. It really shouldn’t have taken me that long and it is certainly no reflection on the book. It’s me. I had three chapters back in April and then felt this overwhelming need to never read a book about churchContinue reading “Recipe for Learning to Pray”

How Things Change

Not long ago, I wanted to give up. Or I felt like I wanted to give up. I’m really not much of a quitter. I’m too damn stubborn. But, I was frustrated and my energy for this project was waning. How things change. Almost immediately after I published that post, my little internet home forContinue reading “How Things Change”

Wanting to Give Up

It’s true. Over the past few weeks, when I haven’t been posting about my latest escapades of entrepreneurial ministry, I have wanted to give up. I have wanted to throw in the towel. I have seriously contemplated why I ever thought this might be possible. There was the first blow a couple weeks ago whereContinue reading “Wanting to Give Up”