My husband had to come home from work this morning to change clothes because his shirt ripped. I was hoping it was a tear I could repair, but it is not. Right across the back, the fabric just shredded. And we are both sad about this, much more than one might expect us to be…
Here is the prompt from over at Revgals! My first ever Friday Five is dedicated to Nikki MacDonald, sister RevGal, who was hungering for an opportunity to write about Haggis. With that introduction, today’s FF is all about food! 1) Is there a food from a foreign land whose reputation led to trepidation when you…
Every year on Epiphany, our congregation is invited to take a star out of a basket as it is passed around. Each star has a different word and people are invited to keep that word with them throughout the year, seeing if they can incorporate it into their conversation with God. Is there something God…
The Testimony of the Bent Over Woman A perspective on Luke 13:10-17 and Isaiah 58:9b-14 by Marci Auld Glass I know the ground of my town well. I am good friends with each rock, each turn of a path, each twist of a road. The way the dirt banks on some turns, the trails left…
Here is the prompt from over at Revgals. Friday Five: Habits “The weekly church reading group I facilitate has just finished reading and discussing The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. It is a fascinating book with research about business and people’s habits or routines.…
This was originally posted at There is Power in The Blog. I recently saw the film, “Elysium”, starring Matt Damon. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, but from what I could tell, it wasn’t war or earthquake or zombies that ruined Earth and turned it into a hell-scape where people lived in rubble and…
Much of the talk among my social media church people these days is about what we need to do to get the Millennial Generation back in the church. Rachel Held Evans wrote a piece on cnn.com’s belief blog about it and then responded further here. I am a big fan of her writing, and even…
A sermon preached July 28, 2013 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Amos 7:7-17 It is good to be home. A week at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium in Purdue with 5,000 of my closest friends and then most of a week in Maine, recovering from Triennium while Alden was at a soccer camp. I…
Today was the closing worship service at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium. This is a denominational youth event of both the PCUSA (the denomination I serve) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Churches. It takes place every three years at Purdue University in the heat of summer. I have been to every Triennium since 1998 and hope to…
Originally posted on Glass Overflowing:
Perhaps you read Elizabeth Smart’s comments on human trafficking recently. As a 14 year old kidnapping victim, she connected her feeling of worthlessness after her abduction and sexual abuse, with an abstinence lecture she had heard. Here’s the quote that is getting all the traction: “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh,…
