RevKJarla has this week’s prompt for the Friday Five: Who knew it was the Second Friday of the month? Thank goodness something reminded me, but my apologies for the late post. I have been busy getting ready for Blizzard Nemo (really, 24 inches in Boston? Why on earth don’t I have a snow blower???) and…
Like many of you, I watched the Super Bowl Sunday night. Even though my team (Go Seahawks!) had been eliminated in the play offs. Even though I’m a little horrified by the violent injuries in the game which lead to brain injury and trauma for these gladiators we call athletes. But I dutifully tuned in…
Today at the state capitol building, I had the privilege of being a member of the panel at an education event about proposed changes to Idaho’s Human Rights Legislation. I was the religious voice on a panel of civic and business leaders. We were all speaking, from our own perspective, about why we feel it…
The following is a reflection I shared on the RevGalBlogPal’s BE6 event this past week during closing worship. Based on John 4. I am a woman at the well. Although not, perhaps, the one of whom you are thinking. I can gather my water in the cool of the morning with the other women. I…
This prayer is a version of a prayer I have used at a service of Installation for a new pastor. A version of this was originally prayed over me as I was ordained at First Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque in 2008. I used this version in a worship service on the RevGalBlogPals cruise this past…
Many of you have heard me speak of “my favorite Aunt Gail”. (She also goes by the name Gail Crouch.) She is one of the gifts I received when I married into my husband’s family. Below is a sermon she preached yesterday at St Paul’s United Church of Christ in Seattle, WA. On this Martin…
(I had a difficult time titling this sermon, so Elliott suggested “Sermon in D Minor”. It really has nothing to do with the sermon, but some days are like that.) A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Jan 20, 2013 John 2:1-11 As many of you know, last week I wasn’t with…
I have just returned from the Emergence Christianity Conference in Memphis, TN. Phyllis Tickle, the founding editor of the Religion Department at Publishers Weekly, shared with us her observations of church and culture, based on her book Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters. Over 400 people of all…
Here is our first STARward guest reflection on a Star word. From Dawn who writes: “I was given quite the word for my very first ever Star Word…Approval. What an interesting word for me, specifically, at this very moment in my life.
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, Boise, Idaho January 6, 2013 Isa 60;1-6 Matt 2:1-12 Here is the video with which we began worship: Today we are celebrating Epiphany. This is an ancient Christian celebration, dating at least as far back as the 300’s. And it is the day we celebrate the arrival of…
