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I Hate It Too

This week the church modem was acting up, zoom wasn’t talking to FaceBook, and everything just fell apart when it came to worship.  Some might smugly say this is why they prerecord worship, but I’ve seen your FaceBook posts about spending 2 hours filming a 5 minute...

5 Months In

We have been online and physically distanced for 5 months now. We’re in a very different place than where we were in March.  I have gotten comfortable with preaching to a green dot on my computer camera. My brain has definitely made a switch around seeing...

Numb

I was attending a training this past week on healing as part of racial equity work and the presenter talked about how we in American culture are particularly good at numbing ourselves from difficulty and pain. As she spoke about becoming unnumbed and how hard, yet...

When Will I Learn?

This past week I was running the numbers of the budget and writing our quarterly report to the agency which funds our grant for Sellwood.  I was really discouraged.  We were on such a great path towards sustainability.  Our building costs were covered by all of our...