I found out that Osama Bin Laden had been killed last night as I was crawling into bed. It has been a long week, I was tired, and my husband came in and announced the big news. My husband! Who normally isn’t all that concerned about world politics/situations. The first thing I thought of was…
how can we laugh at a time like this?
I’m sitting at my computer, looking out the 24th floor window of my hotel in Des Moines. I am currently attending our annual School for Ministry and learning all sorts of neat things about capital campaigns and what kinds of fonts to use on worship slides. We’ve had some good practical teaching this year… with…
hiatus
I have had a really difficult time getting myself into the headspace to blog lately. I’ve been in these funks before, when I just need a break from technology, and in some ways, that has been true of this past one. But I also think that things have just been moving at such a break-neck…
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…
potluck worship
A colleague of mine recently forwarded an email about potlucks and banquets. It was written by Dr. Ed Robinson, the president of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS. photo by: Gözde Otman Dr. Robinson asks us if our worshipping experiences are more like banquets or potlucks. And by that he means: do you come to…
foolish vigor
While I might be young, I’m also a bit daring. I have found myself in recent events at the front of the room instead of the back. Maybe it is my naiveity, but even standing at the front or on a committee, I wonder where the hope has gone. I wonder where the risk has…