Photo Credit: Pixaby.com Summer can be a wonderful reminder of God’s gift of the Sabbath. Theologians remind us that the Sabbath represents a temporary stay of inequality, a day of rest for everyone alike, for animals and for children. Why? Because that is how God sees the world.  The Sabbath sends all alike back to egalitarianism.... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixaby.com We just celebrated the Fourth of July with a smaller gathering of family and friends, to be sure. This year it was more of a meditative celebration and maybe that is what we needed as primary election season heats up within an atmosphere of a curdling division among so many of us.... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: pixaby.com Ahhh! Time for another breather. Time for summer fun! Another Sister and I, and a rambunctious cocker spaniel, live with a beekeeper. She’s an 87 years old retired, senior living administrator who decided at age 80 to take up beekeeping for the environment and for her spirituality! Sometimes our relationship is sticky, but more... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: pixaby.com In front of me this particular day was one of the best students I had ever taught in journalism.  Her writing was superb; she possessed a gift for clarity and description in the parsimonious skill of reporting.  Her commentary writing was dazzling and thoughtful.  I told her I would help her apply to major graduate... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: pixaby.com Celtic spirituality offers a unique image for when an individual or community faces a major choice in life. It is roughly translated as trasna, or crossing. This involves a choice that is life changing. It is not a choice of whether to buy a car or a pair of shoes, etc., life... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: pixaby.com This is not the blog I intended to write. I am no stranger to protests having marched for many decades starting in the 60’s for civil rights all the way up to the women’s marches in recent years.  I have been in Washington, D.C. more often for protests than for tourism or... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: pixaby.com Novelist Anne Tyler developed the concept of The Church of The Second Chance in her novel, Saint Maybe.  Theologian Stanley Hauerwas has taken the concept a bit further from its storefront adding a bit of clerical dressing to it in his writings.  I am a fan of the concept.  A soul, ragged... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixaby.com Have you ever experienced something so beautiful, so meaningful that it took your breath away for a split moment, followed by reverence and awe?  I’ve had a few of these.  Just recently while driving on an isolated road in mid-morning, I saw a red tail hawk descend toward me, gracefully and almost... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: @SNMIPHC My last post described the concept of the unintentional community, that which is formed as a result of a cataclysmic event where survivors employ ways to exist and more importantly, to thrive. Today I want to describe the intentional community, one that is formed by choice constructed by social connections of similar... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixaby.com Nicholas Christakis is a physician-sociologist whose recent book Blueprint “…explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature.”  I’m reading this fascinating book for research toward the work I do with groups.  So far, the author’s argument is enlightening especially if one reflects on our life with COVID-19, which the book preceded by several months.... Continue Reading →