a journey of the spirit
This and the next 3 posts are hymns I wrote a couple years ago for a final project in a class on Jewish and Christian understandings of Sabbath. To the tune of “O, The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” 1. Sabbath sweetness fills our beings / Wrapping us in cloaks of love. / Full of… Continue reading Sabbath Hymn #1
Last weekend a stunningly varied group of people gathered to say goodbye to and honor a very dynamic and life-filled woman. I knew her as an amazing high school English teacher who tutored me (her student teacher) in her craft, and I knew her as a pilgrim with whom I had the privilege of walking… Continue reading Beauty
Most of you probably know the game Marco-Polo… one person is blindfolded in the middle of a room or a pool, the others are moving around them not blindfolded. When the blindfolded person says “Marco,” the others must respond “Polo,” with the eventual aim that the Marco person finds the Polo people by following their… Continue reading Marco-Polo and Crisis Care
Here's the youtube video of today's conversation on worship and authority. In the next few days we will be posting follow-up reflections (and somewhere in there someone will recap for you the 10 minutes of discussion that happened after the technical glitch kicked us off the youtube feed). It was a very enriching conversation to… Continue reading NuDunkers Hangout on Worship and Authority
A smattering of thoughts, in absence of anything that seems to hold together much... Last night I heard an Orthodox monk speak of the seed of the Spirit that lays dormant in each of us until we choose to nurture it and cultivate it. He spoke of authority in the Orthodox tradition as coming from… Continue reading NuDunkers: Worship and Authority
I just got back from the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference, and I find myself swimming in reflections about the shape of the church in that gathering. Here is one of those: I often find myself among feminist and liberationist colleagues in Boston, and in those theologies there is an emphasis on egalitarian community… Continue reading Be careful what you wish for…
This is a reflection I shared at Old South Church's Sunday evening service a few weeks ago. I hesitated to post it here because I don't want to be defined by my struggles, physical or otherwise. And yet, it has become so central to my current life and already in many ways so formative of… Continue reading When Life Becomes Intensely Physical…
A former worship professor of mine wrote a great (if slightly ranting) blog post the other day about the theological and practical difference between "Will you join me in prayer?" and "Let us pray." That post sparked a lot of Facebook discussion, which prompted her to post three other really good blog posts. If you're… Continue reading “Let us pray” and authority
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may… Continue reading On Children… A Teaching Philosophy?
This morning I listened to a RadioLab podcast about quicksand that began with the observation that children in schools are not afraid of quicksand, though people of their parents' generation were. The reporter, in his work to discover why this changed, noticed that the height of use of quicksand scenes in movies was in the… Continue reading Quicksand, zombies, and the church
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