Mister Rogers’ Children Grew Up
My latest post over at Revgals, for their feature “The Pastoral is Political”.
(Re)Building
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on November 10, 2013 Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Haggai’s prophesy dates from Aug and Dec 520 BCE, which can be dated by the dates and the names of the rulers mentioned in it. He is one of the 3 post-exilic prophets of his era (that we know…
Random Friday Five
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…
30 Days of Thankfulness?
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…
Civil and Religious Marriage
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.…
Stuck on an Escalator
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on October 27, 2013. Joel 2:23-32 Luke 18:9-14 The Book of Joel is best read in one sitting. I invite you to look through it this week. It opens with a story of destruction. Locusts invade and destroy the land. Crops fail. Fire burns. A…
And this happened….
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…
The Annoying Woman
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on October 20, 2013. Luke 18:1-8 As I’ve mentioned before, I’m notoriously bad at casting myself in the right role in a parable of Jesus’. But this one! This is the role of my lifetime! I am the annoying woman! I mean the persistent widow.…
Friday Five: Triumph
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…
Beyond our Doors
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on October 13, 2013. Jeremiah 29:1, 4-11 Luke 17:11-21 The word “foreign” conjures up different images. It can make us think of other lands and countries. My husband flew to Haiti this weekend for his annual medical mission trip. He is in a foreign country.…
Glass Overflowing 