Wordless
Wordless For Anneliese and Luke I am a pray-er and writer a speaker and singer I am a word weaver and warrior but you have taken my words away. […]
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A New Home In A New Land
Fifty-one years ago my maternal grandmother was sitting on a suitcase in Grand Central Station, crowds pressing in, sounds swirling around, smells lingering. Her new husband had gone off in […]
Sleeping to One Side
I sleep alone in my queen-size bed and I’ve slept alone in this bed for almost two years. You’d think that after two years, I’d sleep sprawled in the middle […]
“The Gospel According to…”
A few months ago, I attended a conference about storytelling. As I packed my bags and started to wrap my mind around what storytelling and church might have in common, […]
“Waters of Love” and “Birth Water”: New Poetry
Pastor and poet Sharon Benton sent these poems last month with the comment, “It’s the end of January, so baptism texts may be over…” And yet the themes of void, […]
New Art and Poetry
This month we are pleased to offer visual art and poetry together from two different artists, Mary Allison Cates (who created a series we featured in Advent) and Heidi Koschzec.
Reflections on Advent: A Way of Peace
As we move toward the already-and-not-yet of Advent, we celebrate Christ’s birth so long ago even as we know that Christ must be born in us again and again. Countless […]
