Agreements—Abortion (Part 2)
Story time Many years after the fact and many years after last seeing each other, a former classmate told me that she’d had an abortion. As we talked, I remember …
Abortion—a Conservative Christian Agreement
I think of Conservative Christian Agreements as ideas about how we should live that have been agreed upon by conservative Christians for the sake of some sort of control. I …
Real Simple Nostalgia (part 2)
For the first time, I’m struck by the excess, the endless invitations on most pages to spend a bunch of money and to figure out a reason why it’s worth …
Real Simple Nostalgia (part 1)
I’m thumbing through my stash of magazines for what I think will be the last time. They’ve travelled with me, mostly from Athens, Georgia. One or two from Michigan circa …
What are we supposed to say?
Don’t speakDon’t speak outDon’t speak out loudlyDon’t speak out loudly today Today is for contemplationToday is for prayerToday is actually for silence We don’t want to make people madWe don’t …
The Way We Pray
[Context: US President’s Inauguration] The way prayer was used today was…hmmm…hard to hear. Moments like this make it challenging to think of myself as a Christian. And then I remind …
The Trail
I tear up more easily as I age. Just read a bit about a woman who began pastoring in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1973. She was an associate pastor …