New Ways for Old Holidays
We’ve hosted the holidays for our family/friend group for eighteen years. All the holidays, every year. We enjoyed it and had the house...
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Sep 233 min read
"If, however, you bite and devour one another..."
No one is eating anyone’s pets; we’re consuming each other instead. There are calls from both sides to tone down the rhetoric, however,...
Aug 134 min read
Is Community Service the Same as Loving Your Neighbor?
“We are racist.” The words came out as both realization and confession. Courtney was reacting to a conversation I was facilitating about...
Jun 214 min read
Ready or Not: Navigating Life’s Transitions
Somethings are timely because they have a deadline. The sermon is due Sunday morning, ready or not-it’s time! For me, the moving van is...
Apr 234 min read
Moving Forward
What to take with us, what to leave behind. How do we decide? You may remember that my husband and I are at the beginning of a move that...
Mar 193 min read
Tiptoeing toward Change
As we sat on the deck of my dear friend’s home on Whidbey Island, over-looking the Sound, we talked about “tiptoeing toward retirement.” ...
Feb 214 min read
Is the Church a Business?
By Rev. Michael Girlinghouse The social ministry committee of a large, suburban church stood before their council to propose adopting and...
Jan 242 min read
"We Tried That Already" and other helpful complaints.
“We tried that already. It didn’t work.” I don’t like hearing that. But it’s worse when I don’t hear it, when I just see their eyes roll,...
Dec 13, 20233 min read
How to disappoint people on Christmas Eve.
The family service was over, the next two services had a different tone and a different sermon. The windows next to the parking lot were...
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