My Facebook and Twitter news feed the past few days has been full of news of Frank Schaefer. He is a United Methodist Pastor who was brought up on Ecclesiastical charges for presiding at the same gender marriage of his son. He’s been suspended for 30 days, which seems a legitimate response to violating his…
My latest post over at Revgals, for their feature “The Pastoral is Political”.
Here is the Friday Five prompt from Karla over at Revgals: Wow, this second Friday really snuck up on me! But it is here, in all of its glory, right? So…here we go, another random Friday Five! 1. What’s up? How are you? Life is good here. Trying to be meaningfully involved and active and…
I don’t mean to be the grinch who ruined a good Facebook ‘thing’, but I’ve been conflicted about so many of my friends’ participation in the “30 Days of Thankfulness” status update extravaganza. If you haven’t seen it, each day in November, you are supposed to name one thing for which you are thankful. I…
This past week I was in Chicago for the Covenant Network of Presbyterian’s Conference “Marriage Matters”. I led a workshop on the relationship between civil and religious marriage. This is the link to the Prezi from my talk. While it doesn’t have everything that was discussed in the great workshop, it has much of it.…
Yesterday in worship, during the announcements, I took off my preacher robe to reveal a Snow White costume. It was both a promotion for our Trunk or Treat (come Trick or Treat in Southminster’s parking lot this friday at 7!) and then a dwarf came in and we did a bit about Stewardship. Sleepy…
Here’s the prompt from KathrynZJ over at Revgals for the Friday Five: At my church we’re in the midst of a new thing – the Narrative Lectionary. So far, so good… I think. It’s so hard to tell right in the middle of something new if it’s going well or not, isn’t it? We’re still…
This post was also published at The Pastoral is Political at Revgalblogpals. This past week, I posted a comment on Facebook decrying the $40 billion in cuts to the Food Stamp program, claiming it is not how Jesus wants us to treat each other. I also posted this picture: A good friend from college, who…
Our adult Sunday School class is using the Animate Curriculum on the Bible right now. This past week, we were talking about our Bibles. For some of us, the sacredness of the text keeps us from marking the pages with notes. For me, I have many copies of the Bible. But the one I call…
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…
Glass Overflowing 