Do you ever get discouraged by human behavior? I do, often. I sometimes find even my own behavior disheartening. We know what is right and good, yet we persist in doing things that are harmful to ourselves, to our neighbors, or to the planet. The other day, after reading a particularly horrid news article, I… Read More
Friday Festival: A Change Is Gonna Come
“It’s been a long, long, long time coming but I know: change gonna come.” If you need a song today — for hope or for comfort, for resisting or lamenting, for holding on or for letting go — I recommend letting Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” wash over you. Maybe it’s the changing… Read More
Friday Five – the Times they are a Changing
The Times They Are a Changing This is the season of change; our Facebook feeds are full of pictures from first days at school; and news of exam success and college places for our teens. In our churches the summer season is ending and minds turn to autumn and all the things that will start… Read More
Friday Prayer: Pray It Forward
In two weeks’ time, we will read of an unmarried couple, whispered about in their community, seeking to fulfill the demands of the law. The place where they are legally required to file paperwork is full of outsiders. Even though there are many related to them by blood, faith, or other ties, they end up… Read More
