A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Feb 2, 2020 Mark 5:21-43 In the first few chapters of Mark’s gospel, Jesus has been traveling a lot. Last week, if you recall, he had to calm a storm as they were traveling from the Jewish side of the Sea of Galilee to the…
Content warning–this post is about sexual assault and rape. I am fortunate. While not all of my dates in my youth were great, all of my dates were safe, consensual, and respectful. When I told boys to stop, they did. Even if a few of them spent time trying to convince me to change…
The “me too” campaign may have taken 10 years before it really caught fire, but now that so many stories of harassment, assault, and rape are coming out, I’m feeling in equal measure hopeful and horrified. I’m hopeful because when this behavior is brought to the light, it loses it’s power to do damage in…
Today I participated in the Boise Women’s March on Idaho, one of hundreds of marches around the world. Many have asked why we marched. The crowd in Boise was somewhere over 5,000 people (I’ve been to lots of marches here and this was, by far, the largest) and I suspect there were 5,000 different reasons…
Dear Hillary, I know you’ve got this. You’ve been in public service your entire adult life. You know policy. You actually know the world leaders and have been to most of the countries that might come up in questions tonight. You’ve served in the Senate. You’ve been Secretary of State. You’ve worked on the ground…
I’ve written before of the dilemma women face when they get dressed in the morning. I’ve written about how people are more likely to die in a hurricane if that storm is named after a woman, because we don’t believe that women mean what they say. I’ve written about how young women are taught to…
When I was a kid, my favorite book was PD Eastman’s Go Dog, Go! Partly I loved the final image of the dog party in the tree. I still want to go to a party like that. All of the different colored dogs of the world gathering together to eat cake and bounce on a…
This is a sermon I preached many years ago in chapel at Columbia Theological Seminary, in the days before Marci had a blog. The story of Ruth is in the Narrative Lectionary this week, and while this is not the sermon I’m preaching Sunday, it still has something to say. Ruth 4:9-10a and 13-17 1st…
Glass Overflowing 