When Worlds Collide
It felt like falling down a well. That’s the best way I can describe standing by the side of the cart in the back room of the funeral home, looking […]
Words and Water
I was first introduced to the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto when I watched a fascinating movie/documentary called What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?. Dr. Emoto studied the effects that various […]
Gathering a Tribe
It didn’t start out as an intentional project. I didn’t sit down one day and say, “I need a tribe”, and then set out to collect various individuals to gather around me as I […]
Embodying Resurrection
My resurrection moment came, as I suppose they most often do, unexpectedly and unimagined. It was early March and we had a beautiful weather one Sunday – a teasing taste […]
Practicing Together
During the season of Lent, my church has been studying a variety of Christian Practices. Together – in sermons on Sunday morning, as well as book study groups throughout the […]
Pastor and Possible Friend: A Perspective of a Clergyperson and Clergy Spouse
The new president of Princeton Seminary wrote an article last December, titled “Pastor, not friend.” In that article, he reflects on his relationship with a devoted elder of the parish […]
Changing Communities
Every time I bathe my one-year-old son, I think of baptism. Baptism leads my mind to community. Each time the water runs down his hair, I’m reminded of my changing […]
Celebrating Without
For the first time this holiday season I’m celebrating without my father. They say the first year after the loss of a loved one is the worst. Holidays especially. The […]
They Will Know…By Our Love
We just wrapped up a highly contentious election season here in the United States. Mud – and other sorts of muck – was flung freely between all of the political […]
Generation to Generation
I come from a long line of strong women. While our last names and family trees follow the men in our lives; there is a deep current that runs through […]
