Ashes and Prayers
A colleague, Elizabeth Dilley, shared the story of imposing ashes on the foreheads of children. As she made the sign of the cross on one…
Ash Wednesday
Practicing Our Religion in Public
By some accounts, yesterday morning I did exactly the opposite of what Jesus tells us in Matthew. Some of us gathered at a local coffee…
Look. See. Live. #growrule
As part of my Lenten disciplines, I’m using a tool from The Society of Saint John the Evangelist called “Growing a Rule of Life.” As…
Ashes and Lattes
In the middle of a public place, a busy coffee shop, surrounded by strangers… people got real. We hosted our first ashes to go in…
Feasting, not fasting…
Mark’s gospel is known for its haste. Jesus is here and then there and everything is so urgent and busy. We spent four weeks in…
fasting in secret, doing justice in the daylight
Last night in Disciple Bible Study, we very timely read the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew. As a class, we wrestled with the implications…
where two or more are gathered
Even though our congregation is small, I try to have two different services for Ash Wednesday. We have an older congregation and it is still…
life breathed into dust
today as we come forward to have the ashes placed upon our foreheads, as we remember what it means to be made of the dust…