Holy Week has snuck up on me. It feels like it was Palm Sunday about two seconds ago but I just looked up and it’s Maundy Thursday. Apparently my crazy-busy schedule didn’t really care that I wanted this to be … Continued
The following is an abridged version of a sermon by David Spain, senior minister of First Christian Church Norman. The lectionary reading that day was from Joshua 24: 1-3, 14-28, in which Joshua is setting up the nation of Isreal … Continued
Recently a friend told me she had decided to get rid of all the journals and notebooks she’d filled with years of morning pages, journaling, short stories, poetry, teenage angst, and young adult musings. She had hauled boxes of journals … Continued
If you follow the news regularly, you may be getting whip lash. Hurrican Harvey, DACA, wildfires in California, Jeff Sessions, hurricane Irma, wildfires in the northwest. What in the actual heck is going on here? Are we in the end … Continued
I’m back at The Glorious Table with week talking about dreams. Holding on to them, letting them go, and releasing our hold on them enough to be discovered and realized. Releasing your Dreams Exodus 2 is a very familiar story … Continued
The forty days are almost up. Forty days ago I held honorable intentions of participating in the Lent season by getting up earlier than I normally do, spending time meditating, reading and praying. I felt like this would give me … Continued
This is the final prayer in the Five Prayers To Get Us Through The Election series. If you are feeling lost or like your world has been turned upside down, please check out the previous prayers. Week one Week two … Continued
Each week I have been sharing a prayer of mercy and compassion to help keep the sanity in this election season. If you would like a refresher, click here for week one and here for week two. Since I … Continued
The first Sunday after Easter is a special one in our church. It is the Sunday in which the 5th grade students are baptised (if they so choose). It just so happens that we have a 5th grader in our … Continued
The more I take the time to listen to the words of hymns, the more I am moved by the depth of their theology. It’s easy to sing along and not pay attention to the words. The tune is familiar … Continued
