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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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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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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThank 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....
View ArticleLet 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...
View ArticlePalm 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...
View ArticleStudents 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...
View ArticleDreaming 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...
View ArticleA 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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