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Unity

When I was in seminary I took a class called Healing and Reconciliation with Rev. Dr. Ruth Duck.  One of the things we studied in that class was the Truth and Reconciliation work being done in South Africa. This past month in the wake of the insurrection at the US...

Smoking or non-smoking?

Years ago, when I was studying abroad in Spain, I started smoking. I was lonely, reeling from a sexual assault, and desperately needing connection and community.  Smoking with my host mom on the balcony became a blessed retreat in the midst of homesickness, fear,...

When It Is All Too Much

My elderly in-laws are in crisis. Our family has had to shift our whole lives around this week to help take care of them. Our daughter is having to plan for next school year this week and that is an anxiety producing exercise. The School Board meeting I presided over...

Epiphany Chaos

Epiphany is the story of a corrupt king, people jockeying for power, competing narratives, signs in the heavens, gifts that foreshadow who Jesus will be, foreign dignitaries, and angelic dreams. Wednesday, as I watched the assault on our nation, I was first sad that...