This week’s theme of rebuilding has visited many aspects of challenge and growth that are a part of our lives. Today, our Lenten practice is to form words of challenge and growth together as an acrostic poem. The words do not have to “flow” from one to another. The beauty is in seeing the patterns […]
This week, we have been focusing on rebuilding. One of the assumptions we carry is that there is always something to rebuild from. But what is that core? This very poignant story from a past Radiolab offers a glimpse into one of the deepest fears for many people: what if we lose everything, even our […]
I have to admit that for a long time, I had difficulty with the Gospel passage of Jesus overturning tables in the Temple. I’m non-violent by nature, so I am always working to find a peaceable solution, a point of communication even at the most challenging moments where words defy us. My father reminds me […]
John 2:13-22 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured […]
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