My STARword for 2013 is ADVENTURE. Much like last year’s word, PRACTICE, I wasn’t so thrilled when it chose me. Because I am not, particularly, an adventurous person. I am a home-body. I have never been particularly adventurous. A famous family story involves a 7 year old Marci refusing to cross the border to Tijuana…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church on Feb 10, 2013. Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-43 I don’t know about you, but this was a busy week for me. Many of us were here yesterday as we celebrated the life of Bud Keyt. And our Presbytery met yesterday morning at First Presbyterian downtown and we voted…
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…
Glass Overflowing 