On Monday, November 6th, the New York Times ran an editorial which pointed out that in the previous 511 days there had been 555 mass shootings in our nation. There’s been at least one more since. Much might be said about how these events are now normal for us (given...
“…go together like a horse and carriage.” Well, it wasn’t before the automobile was invented, but it was a long time ago that Caleb and I were married, at 23 and 20 years old. Right away we found that families of origin create expectations…the roles of...
The use of these M words in Luganda, the most widely used native language in Uganda, will become clear at some point in what follows. (I couldn’t add what white men, like all those going on the Uganda Youth Mission leaving October 20 are called because it is the Bantu...
I have this Henri Nouwen quote in the front of my Bible. It’s not a huge distinction, if you’ve ever seen my Bible, but it’s an important quote for me even still. Nouwen begins this quote, “In this world, love and woundedness come...
Edit: For more information and access to the verses of the day in electronic form, click here! Dear friends, Sunday in church you received a card with seven Scripture verses on it, the first of three such cards you will also receive on the next two Sundays. This is a...
Dear Christ the Redeemer family, These next four weeks, the lectionary takes us to Philippians—the letter in which the word “joy” appears most frequently and “rejoice” occurs more times than in any of Paul’s other letters. Yet, at the same time, in this letter Paul...
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