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What Is Right?

As we think about Liberation this season and contemplate God’s justice I am walking through deep thought pattern shifts about the concept of rightness. One way this is coming up for me is in my school board work.  We are contemplating changes to our real estate...

Lenten Balance

This week Lent begins. My Facebook feed is full of clergy colleagues whose hearts are breaking as they face another Lenten season preaching to a camera.  Others can’t bare to ask their people to enter into a season of suffering when we have all already suffered...

Retreat Recap

This past Saturday our leadership team gathered to do some visioning and thinking about where God is calling us. We began with the excerpt below from the Bishop’s recent letter on dismantling racism: THE CHURCH IS THE PLACE… to wake up and courageously face the...

Shame on You

I recently got an email in response to a school board issue that had in all caps the words shame on you.  It got me thinking about the powerful ways we shame and shun one another and how these ideas were part of religious practice for centuries.  For me the...

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...