I was so taken with Marci Glass's essay on Star Words that I suggested it to my new parish here in South Carolina, where the idea has been warmly received. Our Vestryperson in charge of Youth Education graciously allowed me to co-opt the Family Sunday school scheduled for this morning and many hands making light …
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The Pastoral Is Political: Church Membership and Politics
Excellent points on membership, and valuable thoughts about our current crop of political candidates.
A Call to Answer Hate with Love
This week the news has been so full of hatred and negativity, from the major networks screaming bad news and fear, the mostly ill-informed political rantings on Facebook and other social media, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and, saddest of all, the accounts of hate-filled incidents perpetrated against our Muslim neighbors. It all makes my heart sore. …
Friday Five: Distractions
3dogmom at RevGals asks us to list five things we use as distractions when the going gets tough. I'm super good at distracting myself most of the time. Just stay busy! Sooooo very busy! So busy I can't think about that thing I really should attend to, or the horrors of the day which lately seem …
Stereo-atypical
Julie at RevGals asks, NaBloPoMo Day 25: How do you crush a stereotype of your gender/sexual expression/race/denomination/nationality? I don't know that I crush any of them; I live a traditional life. But I think I've occasionally given a student reason to think differently about things, to maybe question a closely-held position, like this one: I was …
RevGalBookPals: An Ordinary Death
Reblogging this as I was the child of two parents who both died with no wills, no instructions, and I had no clue how to handle any of it. From discussing these things with one's spouse and children, to writing a will and Advanced Directive, to your funeral arrangements, thinking about this stuff ahead of …
The Grace of a Gift in the Morning
Yesterday morning at church I received a small gift from new friends. In an effort at clearing the clutter of their house Steve and Jim had a yard sale, but one thing Steve rescued and presented to me: a Texas trivet, the type of thing one finds in gift shops at every tourist attraction everywhere. It …
Rip-Tides and Undercurrents
Until I was 33 years old, I lived no farther from the Pacific ocean than about five miles. As a child, since bio-dad was a beach-loving athlete of a cop, I spent every other weekend at the beach, my skin the color of bronze and my hair streaked white from sun and salt. Sun, sand, the …
Southern Fried Californian 