Irresolutions: New Year, New You?
The new year in American culture rings in the reminder of all the ways our culture wants to change us. Diets and special offers for gyms and workout programs flood […]
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Irresolutions: Battling Metaphors
The first thing my partner’s father asked after we told him I had cancer was, “Is Jo going to fight this?” It was a serious, intense question, one that we […]
New Year’s Irresolution
Earlier this year, I was at an annual gathering of other local clergy in my denomination. Our speaker for our time together was Dr. Deanna A. Thompson, the Director of […]
Beatitudes for Clergy for a New Year
Blessed are you who are showered with gifts and cards and gratitude this holy season, for your worth is known far and wide. Blessed are you whose people greet Pastoral […]
Worthy of Love
The Rev. Kerri Clark shared the following message with her congregation and on her blog in the final days of 2020. We want to share her wisdom and encouragement. As […]
Enough
I’ve spent 39 years on this earth without any tattoos. I’m not anti-tattoo, but I couldn’t think of anything that I would, without any doubt, want forever engraved on my […]
Grace-full Resolutions
January brings new beginnings. There’s calm after the flurry of holiday festivities. New calendars are crisp and white, empty dates full of promise. It’s an opportunity and often a yearning […]
A New Year of High-Level Adulting
I’ve never been much good at the whole New Year’s Resolution thing. It seems that for most of my adult life, every January I’ve made a half-hearted pledge to lose […]
Divine Declarations – Our Resolutions for 2010
by Lara Blackwood Pickrel (and all our clergy sisters who shared their New Year’s resolutions!)
