Writings
We’re words people—and below are our weekly grapplings with truth and tension, ability and disability, hope and despair, innovation and ancient wisdom. Join us on a journey to know and be known.
How is Good Friday even ‘Good’?
It’s taken me more than three decades to really catch the goodness of Good Friday. But standing tonight between my husband who can’t walk and …
New Nighttime Ritual
Sleeping is hard these nights. It’s hard to sleep in my comfortable bed when I know people are hunkered down in hollowed-out, heatless buildings and …
What St. Patrick’s Radical Forgiveness Could Look Like Today
He’s celebrated for many reasons mixing myth and man, and for all we may not know about Saint Patrick, we do know this: just before …
Why Ex Nihilo Makes All the Difference
More and more this month I’m loving the moments right after my alarm goes off. I don’t mean that sarcastically: that time between sleeping and …
Lamentations Hits Differently Now
It’s been one of those find-what-we-can-in-the-fridge-for-dinner, just-get-outside-after-work evenings, because the world just felt like too much today. Sometimes a life-giving perspective–one that re-orients us to …
Loathing a Parable and Looking at Eastern Europe
You know what parable I can’t stand? The parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30). It’s always bothered me, but thinking about Russia and Ukraine makes …
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