I have been struck with a perspective this lent season that I really haven’t pondered before. Much of my focus during this time in years past has been that of personal devotion, realignment and attention to that which is potentially hindering my love for...
Fireside Once, during a trip to the Himalayan Region Vineyard Churches, a group of us assembled along the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu. This particular area on the river bank is a frequent cremation site. A man from the Kathmandu Vineyard had died and the...
When the news of the recent earthquake in Turkey broke, I had this overwhelming feeling of paralysis. Not in my body, nor my emotions per se, not even intellectually, this somehow felt different. Maybe for the first time, or at least in a different way, I was able to...
Much like Peter himself, or at least how I would imagine him, the tone of his First Epistle is one of urgency and intensity. He is speaking to the Church in exile, writing from the belly of the beast, Rome, or as he calls it in Chapter 5, Babylon. His confidence is in...
Make Me the Mother of Love I’m thankful I was asked to write on the Advent week that celebrates Love. I love Advent in part because my husband Jon and I celebrate it each year with our kids Elena and Atticus. Atticus’ birthday is Dec 16 (yes, we celebrated...
The theme for the third Sunday of Advent is Joy. One of the assigned biblical texts from the Revised Common Lectionary for the third Sunday of Advent in 2022 is Psalm 146:5-10, which in the NRSV reads: “Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope...
