Book Review: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
I started Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande two years ago, as the world still reeled from Covid-19. I was preparing for the Lenten […]
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Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to ashes Dust to dust – Homes destroyed By earthquakes Now covered in dust.
A Pinch in the Fabric: A Reflection on Ash Wednesday 2022
I was in 8th grade the first time I learned there was a Nazi in my family tree.
Lent is a Season To Tend Our Hollowness
2 Corinthians 4:7, “But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from […]
What God Can Do with Dust
Our fifth frozen embryo transfer (FET) was on Ash Wednesday last year. Our first pregnancy ended on an Ash Wednesday three years before that. In between those experiences, Lent became […]
Should and Should Not: Just Trust
When I began to write about God, I was 20 years old, reeling from the end of a four-and-a-half-year relationship, and still struggling to piece together my faith two years […]
Come to the Table
Many years ago, my friend had a young daughter with serious medical issues who had to be hospitalized for several weeks. Understandably, my friend was under enormous stress and she […]
A Poem on the Eve of Lent
God’s beloved dust, fabric of the universe— of planets newly discovered and ruins ancient, broken and us. God’s beloved dust, we’ll walk into wilderness on a Wednesday— a wilderness of […]
Communion in the City
There’s a story, a myth perhaps, about a congregation that stopped all activities during Lent. That season they gathered for Sunday worship, and then the pastor and elders visited the […]
Turbulent Waters: Discovering Church
Sleepily nursing my eight-day-old daughter after sending my one- and three- year olds off to school, I considered that it was Wednesday. Not just any Wednesday, but Ash Wednesday. I […]
