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Repairers of the breach…
WPGrace Space Wicker Park Grace is a community that is close to my heart and a vital part of my own life. Wicker Park Grace is a pcusa new church development in Chicago that values hospitality, justice...
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Lent 3.16.11
Be Nourished I’m a week late but have finally settled on a Lenten practice — I’m going to post a drawing each day from now till Easter. It’s been a rough winter and my soul was so in need of the extra...
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Lent 3.17.11
I used to be an art teacher and I one of things I loved about teaching younger kids is the sense of awe they often brought with them to the art room. For them, everything from mixing colors to learning...
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Lent 3.18.11
Today’s drawing is for a friend of mine who is attending a conference this week. Today she attempted to share with a worship leader how she was feeling about the exclusive male language being used for...
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Lent 3.20.11
community of Hope This weekend marks one year since I was ordained a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Being a pastor has become… is becoming a part of my identity. Like...
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Lent 3.21.11
Prayer of Thanksgiving O God, Abundance Thanks for: 1 lb. bacon 1/2 Yellow Onion 1 C. Mushrooms 2 Roma Tomatoes 2 C. chopped Spinach 4 Eggs 2 C. Cream basil, rosemary, salt and pepper to taste 2 C....
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Lent 3.23.11
‘Whelmed’ When my oldest (teenage) son pours himself a glass of juice he chooses the largest glass he can find and fills it to the brim… not just below the rim but by some miracle of physics the juice...
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Lent 3.31.11
Collective Memory For almost two years I’ve been working with a group of folks who are dealing with Young Onset Alzheimer’s. Once a month the Rush University Medical Center’s Memory Clinic sponsors...
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Lent 4.5.11
Anointing Rejection. Of all the anxiety and emotions that I can get hung up on and sucked into I think the fear of rejection may be the most powerful. I struggled with the fear as a teenager and in...
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A little bit of grace…
Today I Danced… I don’t dance… at least I try to avoid it. I love to listen to music but my creative gifts don’t lie in really hearing the notes of the music or making my own. My rhythm is, to say the...
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Thank You for Naming… A Response to Larissa Kwong Abazia
I am deeply grateful for Larissa Kwong Abazia’s reflection titled: “Thank you for NOT asking.” which she guest posted this week on grounded in three Jan Edmiston’s blog, A Church For Starving Artists....
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Let Your Faces Shine
Last week I attended #salic or the Six Agency Leadership Consultation in Baltimore which is a fancy way of saying that the PC(USA) sent representatives from the six agencies that make up the...
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Palm Sunday: Take it to the streets.
Sermon: Students of Possibility Palm Sunday Luke 19: 28-40 Trying out the human mic… the human mic is a process used by protesters, demonstrators or occupiers… it’s used when a crowd gathers with out...
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Students of Life (a sermon for easter sunday)
Students of Life “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver Luke 24:1-12 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they [women who followed...
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Dreaming God’s Dream (a sermon for pentecost)
1st Reading: Genesis 11:1-9 (translated by Theodore Hiebert) All the earth had one language and the same words. When they traveled toward the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they...
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A Sermon For Pride Sunday: Draw The Circle Wide
Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still… They drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We...
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