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Healing

This season we are focusing on practices of healing. We are exploring and creating ways to tend our souls after 2 years of pandemic, wrestling with the fall out of climate change, navigating our deeply divided political life, grieving the rise of gun violence in our...

Dissolving

This week one of the things I get to work on is dissolving the Sellwood Faith Community Corporation. This is simply a financial hoop we have to jump through The Parish is not going anywhere, and both Trinity and SFC are strong components of this new expression. Back...

Easter Song

This week we get to sing some of my favorite hymns. I can remember singing these songs surrounded by people at the church where I grew up. I can picture the Garners sitting in front of us, Randy’s lovely voice ringing out. I remember Easter in Spain, the same...

Not Enough

Last week as I looked out at the gathering on Sunday morning I felt sad. There were 15 of us in the Sanctuary and it just felt like not enough. A visitor had made some cutting remarks about there being “no one” at worship. And suddenly our gathering seemed...

Mismatched

For Lent this year I have been wearing the same bracelet every day. It’s basically like a purple shoelace with a silver tree charm in the middle. Someone gave it to me a while back and I decided to save it for the season of Lent. It’s a great reminder for...