In the past few weeks and months I have spent many hours, praying and meditating on call: my call, my sense of something new coming… just round the corner. Still intangible, undefined, ineffable (I love that word, and its use in Good Omens made me laugh out loud) – this call I have responded to… Read More
Friday Festival: Separation and Connection
This weekend many congregations will celebrate Pentecost. We will talk about God’s power to break down dividing walls, build bridges over chasms that separate us, and make connections between people who can’t imagine themselves connected. Several of our blog writers have been thinking about separation and connection in their posts this week. “This year, our… Read More
Friday Festival: Why aren’t you writing?
RevGalBlogPals began as a webring, a connected group of bloggers with the shared interest of being or supporting women in ordained ministry. In those pre-Facebook days, we kept up with each other by navigating from one blog to another, carrying on conversations in the comments that sometimes migrated from one person’s page to another. All… Read More
Friday Festival – Wrestling With Prayer
During Lent, I held a luncheon series on Ways to Pray. We explored verbal prayer, writing prayer, movement prayer, praying through art, and praying through singing. Through these experiences, all of us saw our communication with God expand – nudging each of us to open ourselves to the variety of ways we are called to… Read More
Friday Festival: Back to the Foundation
As the week winds up, our bloggers are returning us to the essentials. They offer a counterbalance to whatever sorrow, aggravation, worry or rage the week has brought to us. The image above is Bonnie Jacobs meditation on the laundry — just in case your week has been like that, too. Jan Edmiston reminds us… Read More
Friday Festival
I am sitting in my kitchen, spring sunlight pours in through the open door. It is cold but beautiful. This has been quite a week hasn’t it? Two very significant deaths in our small world of the faithful. One so untimely it takes the breath away, and the other at the end of a very… Read More
Friday Festival: Food and More Food
Depending on where in the world you live, you may be watching hopefully for the first morel mushrooms of the season, or you may be celebrating the bounty of the end of the growing season. Food often makes an appearance in the writings of our bloggers. Sometimes the food is part of the story, and… Read More
Friday Festival: For now and for later
It’s Friday in the post-Easter lull, which doesn’t mean the week wasn’t busy but only that we pastors may be living lull-ishly regardless. Some of the blog posts I’ll share are current and perhaps pertinent for this Sunday, while the others speak to last week and ideas we may want to bookmark for next year.… Read More
Friday Festival: A New Season
We don’t always notice the turning of the seasons as it happens day by day. And then, all at once, the signs appear in an unmistakable way. The first green shoots poking out of the garden soil in Wisconsin, the first baby lambs in the hills of Scotland, the noticeable chill in the early morning… Read More
Friday Festival: Into the Mess
Do we fear mess? The season of Lent invites us into the messy unknown. By exploring spiritual practices and wrestling with any discord in our hearts, we invest in the Lenten wilderness process as we see in our friend’s blogs. April Fiet dives into a physically space to sort through items – specifically Flip Flops… Read More
