Seventy five years ago, I probably would not have been welcomed in this pulpit. As a woman, ordination was out of the question. A combination of tradition and a patriarchal society and a way of reading the scriptures precluded the church from welcoming women as preachers and pastors. But here I stand… robed, ordained, my…
Easter
Scars
I have a couple of scars in my body. Right below my left knee the area is numb and without feeling and there is a small whitish mark. That scar is from the time I thought it was a good idea to do a cartwheel in the girl’s locker room and I ended up hiting…
How Should We Love?
Last week, we talked about a little place on the southwest side of Jerusalem… does anyone remember what that ugly and awful place was called? Ghenna! Ghenna is a trash dump… it is a valley of garbage… it is a place for filth and waste… a place to burn and destroy the refuse of our…
Ghenna
One of my favorite things to do as the weather warms up is to get outside and play some disc golf. A week and a half ago – before winter decided to come back and pay us another visit – I was able to play my first round of the year at Jones Park in…
Salt and Light
This morning, we seem an awfully long ways from the Kingdom of God. Yesterday – eight years to the day since we sent forces to Iraq, we began bombing in Libya. Unrest in Bahrain, Yemen, and other countries in the middle east is being showed on our airwaves. Earthquakes. Tsunamis Nuclear reactors having problems. Where…