Once again, my pile of “to read” books has grown so high that I actually need to read a few books from the pile before I can reasonably defend the purchase (or library-borrowing) of more books that will surely increase the pile’s height! First to move from the “to read” pile into my hands for… Read More
Friday Festival
Our bloggers are reflecting on travel, and the baggage we carry, this week. They are our tour guides into new spiritual territory. Beginning with the intriguing lament, “I have always wanted to be a tiny-purse carrier,” Melissa Bane Sevier reflects on what we carry around, and Jesus’ instructions to his disciples not to carry a… Read More
Friday Festival: You Say Yes, I Say No
This week many of our bloggers have been writing about obstacles that get in our way. Some of them are self-imposed, while others come from outside us. Some of them are easy to handle (once we recognize them), while others are much harder to remove. There were many more posts than I have room to… Read More
Friday Festival: Life In, Around, and Beyond the Church
I wrote most of this post on Wednesday. It seems that I then accidentally deleted it. And I THEN discovered that there are challenges to finding things on feedly when you’ve already read them. Nevertheless, when I pieced back together what I could, I did discover something of a theme, which has to do… Read More
Friday Festival: Popsicle Time
mmer is coming! In some places where school ends early, it’s here. Whether we live on a school year calendar or not, summer brings a lift to the spirits, and the hope of a change in our routine. Some people travel, and others take dinner outside. Some of us develop a daily ice cream ritual,… Read More
Friday Festival: Nevertheless, She Persisted
A number of our bloggers have been focusing on injustices in the church and the world. In Dirty Sexy Ministry, Laurie places before us an image from the Jackson, Mississippi Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1963 and asks us whether we could persist and could pray in the face of such an evil assault? Now… Read More
Friday Festival: Hermeneutics
The work of interpreting life and scripture, and the understanding of the lenses by which we make such interpretations, is called hermeneutics. Knowing — and testing — our individual & cultural hermeneutics is necessary work for ministry and for maturity of faith. Hermeneutics is an academic kind of word but it’s an everyday kind of… Read More
Friday Festival: Holy Week Recap
It’s Good Friday, a day on which our festival takes on a somber tone. I have been reading updated blogs all week with this day in mind, wondering how our writers are preparing for this week-end of death and resurrection. As the week began, if you go back to last Saturday, the eve of… Read More
Friday Festival: Wait… What!
Wait… What! Sometimes we read something that takes a moment to sink in. And once it does, there is something so engaging that we just have to spend a minute absorbing it. That’s how it was for me this week. As I was reading blog posts , I came across a number of sentences that… Read More
Friday Festival: A Little of Everything
This week’s Friday Festival is a sampling of blog posts from our members. Some of them appealed to me because of their title, others because of a picture that caught my eye, others because I had not read that blogger’s work before. Use these links to join me in exploring a sample of the writing… Read More
