This recipe is kind of thrown together out of various things that I found online… First, roast your butternut squash 1) preheat oven to 400 degrees 2) cut squash into wedges and spoon away the seeds and pulp 3) sprinkle wedges with cinnamon and cumin – light dusting of each. I normally do the cinnamon…
focus.
Last night I watched Julie & Julia. And as an amateur blogger, I thought a lot about one of the key pieces of her success – she had a focus. She knew what she wanted to do and by golly was going to do it. And she had a process for doing it. I tend…
calls for justice in the midst of advent joy
This coming Sunday we will light the third candle on the Advent wreath – the candle for JOY. We hear in the midst of this call to rejoice, however, a very startling message. John the baptist calls out to the crowds: You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?…
kitchen sitting
One of my favorite holiday activities is sitting in the kitchen and hearing stories. I’m at my grandpas right now – our christmas house – and already the warm and familiar smells of coffee and bacon are filling the air. Slowly people will start to emerge from all of the various places they crashed. The…
Lost my religion… or my religion lost me
Francisco Viri, “The Agnostic Survivor”, Watercolor, 56 x 39 cms., 2002 As many of you know – my husband isn’t involved at all in church life. This whole church and religion thing just isn’t what makes him comfortable and he’s definately not sure that he wants to swallow the “truth” of the church hook, line…
entering the fray: Psalm 109
For those of you who might have missed it, there has been a wave of t-shirts, bumper stickers and other such things that say “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” On first glance, you think – oh, that’s nice. Of course we should pray for our leaders. And then you read the actual verse: May his…
Hope or Despair? Birth Pangs of the Kingdom
As I started exploring and reading our texts for this week, I was instantly transported back to my best friend’s kitchen – 1997. I was a sophomore in high school and my family had recently started going to church. I knew the basics of the Christian faith, but was becoming aware of how muc more…
Where is the Kingdom?
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be they name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven… Thy kingdom come on earth… That little tiny phrase is one of the most subversive and radical things that we can say as Christian people. And we say it every week.…