Beloved Community,
Tending the Roots
September 1st, 2023
As I have attempted to become a half-decent plant parent over these adulting years, I figured that in order to shed my “accidentally kill all the plants that ...
Beloved Community,
The Connective Tissue of Blessing
August 26th, 2023
Last summer while Josh and I were in Spain en route to our Camino de Santiago starting point, we were stuck in the middle of a long day of travel in our longest...
Beloved Community,
Every Accomplishment is Rooted in a Practice
August 19th, 2023
Thanks in part to the generosity of Amy Mac and Roper who shared with me a bounty of tomatoes from this week’s older adult tomato pick up, I decided that a sa...
Beloved Community,
“Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.”
August 12th, 2023
Several years ago, when I began contemplating what would “make my heart sing,” in the words of the National Clergy Renewal Program’s sabbatical applicatio...
Beloved Community,
Gratitude Tethers
August 1st, 2023
When the dear old dad of my oldest friend Anna gave me a hard time last week for turning the ripe old age of 42 -- "that sure sounds like an age when you'd know...
Beloved Community,
Sabbath Sojourn
July 22nd, 2023
Caught in the full and boisterous stretch of weeks that included our church's first time at the Pride Festival, Abigail Cook's final Sunday on our staff, the an...