I’ve been away! Where it was sunny and warm. And I have returned with the exact same remains of the flu with which I departed. Returned to a Friday funeral for a beloved matriarch and to two critical meetings, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. So, please accept these readings as an example of… Read More
Friday Festival: Fifty Years and Counting
Sometimes we think of the week after Easter as the time for a large, collective exhale, a time to rest and regroup and retrieve our equilibrium after the intense busy-ness of Lent and Holy Week and Easter. And what have our bloggers been thinking about this week? A number of bloggers, and many more RevGals,… Read More
Friday Festival: Holy Week Prep
‘Twas the Friday before Holy Week and all through the Church for sermons & coffee all pastors did search. Friends, colleagues: deep breath. The long Lenten marathon is rounding the bend to the steepest hill known as Holy Week. The Easter finish line can be seen in the distance, but the work to get there… Read More
Friday Festival: Darkness and Light
We’re halfway through Lent, and a number of our bloggers are reflecting on Darkness and Light in various ways. Here’s a sampling of the dozens of new posts in this past week by RevGals and Pals. “Lent is about walking with friends through the darkness and seeing how we are changed.” Marguerite Sheehan thinks about… Read More
Friday Festival: Updates
Once upon a time, long long ago, when blogging was popular and platforms were anonymous, in the days before 120 characters and “going viral,” a cluster of clergywomen & lay women & a few clergymen found one another’s blogs and developed the habit of reading & checking in & praying & encouraging through comments on… Read More
Friday Festival: Temptation and More
A stained and battered alb has at Diane Roth at Faith in Community thinking about the temptation to keep our true selves hidden. A misadventure with a pen and the washing machine left her “new” alb with looking worse than ever. “I briefly considered wearing the alb anyway, on Ash Wednesday. If you see it,… Read More
A Wintry Friday Festival
Winter has undone me. I had a plan, a theme, for today’s Festival . . . but I found other posts to read, and my theme vanished into the snow. I trust that you will enjoy these marvelous posts anyway! Linda Anderson-Little addresses a perennial dilemma for women: the tension that lodges… Read More
Friday Festival: Anniversaries and Special Days
Several of the bloggers in the RevGalBlogPals community have been reflecting on the passage of time, and the way we mark it with anniversaries and commemorations of special days. Here’s a sampling. In Everyday Thinking, Maria Tafoya thinks about the meaning of the pearls her father had given her mother as a 25th anniversary gift.… Read More
Friday Festival: Gifts in Surprising Places
January is a hard month to love, especially in the Northern United States where I live. Our friends in the Southern Hemisphere may be loving life these days, but January takes a toll here. Our bloggers, in different locations, are finding unexpected gifts this week, and they share their discoveries with us. Living up to… Read More
Friday Festival: Come and See!
The “Come and See!” gospel text from John is one of my favorites, combining action, alacrity, vision, and responsiveness in one short phrase. It’s one of many topics I’m preaching on this Sunday – along with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Sermon on the Mount, church renewal, and officer ordination and installation. Phew! What are… Read More
