Give Them Something To Eat
On Friday nights, I get a little homesick. For the past seven or so years, every week we gathered at my sister-in-law’s house for dinner…
Katie Z.
A Seed, A Baby, An Insignificant Life
The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed that a farmer plants in the middle of their field. Two weeks ago, this farmer in…
In the Weeds
My husband and I moved to Cedar Rapids in October of 2012. At that dreary time of year, everything that had been growing in the…
Recklessly Lavish, Wastefully Abundant
This past Sunday, I stepped into the pulpit at Immanuel UMC for my first morning as their new pastor. I had actually been in the…
How Does Your Garden Grow?
One of my biggest disappointments about moving in the middle of the summer is that I didn’t have a chance to put in a garden….
Unimagineable…
I think in some ways, I’m still in shock. Or exhausted. or both. At 2:45 on Monday afternoon, we announced that we had raised $2,009,907…
Finding Faith at the Lunch Table
If I think back to the first moment when faith sunk in deep into my life, it would be sitting around a lunch table at…
Bandwidth
This week at an annual conference worship meeting, Jorge Lockward, who works with the General Board of Global Ministries asked a simple question: “Do…