Many of you know my story. I worked full time as a staffer at an innovative, artistic church right out of college.
Somewhere along the way I became disillusioned with institutional religion. And I wrote a book about it called Dear Church. I was 24.
During that time, my husband and I moved into the Jackson area, [...]
(The following is a post I wrote for the Throw Mountains blog. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I invite you to head on over.)
I admit it. I’m an American Idol stalker. (Meaning, I don’t have a lifelong fascination, but I do a drive-by here and there. More so lately.)
I know. I know. A.I. [...]
Happy Easter morning all. I’m taking a 10 day stretch away from the online world, but scheduled this
blog–an Easter reflection I contributed to the Mosaic Bible–to post in celebration of today.
If you’d like to see more from the Mosaic Bible, here is a special link to an 84 pg. excerpt which also includes a Christmas [...]
Every day on the way home from work, I pass the most spectacular crossing guard on the planet.
Really.
I would put him up against any crossing guard in the country.
Not only is he vigilant about getting the kids across the street safely, but he’s ecstatic about it.
He maneuvers his flags, complimented by beaming smiles, as if [...]
Sometimes I need to crawl back to the countryside, to just sit there, cross-legged, listening to a revolutionary on a hill.Sometimes I need a new vision for human life because the one I’ve got just isn’t cutting it.What I love about this revolutionary is that he starts on a high note–listing people who are…as we [...]
The stray candy bar wrappers I just scooped up off the street are a few more reminders that the world has unraveled quite a bit since Eden.
For one, we have these high-maintenance items called clothes now–a needy invention which must be tried on and purchased and washed and dried and folded and ironed and put [...]
