Writings and Sermons
Falling apart is human. The most important thing I learned my senior year of university was that I could fall apart. I was the over-achieving, still remember all the classes I didn’t get an A in in high school, early-to-rise-late-to-bed, whether because I’m an oldest child or as a coping mechanism after my mother’s […]
Read MoreWhen I worked at camp, you could quickly tell the returning staff from the new staff each summer by how our boss’s wife’s requests were responded to. New staff were often confused and uncertain of what to do when this smart and assertive woman who was not part of the staff made a request or […]
Read MoreThere is a balm in Galilee. Or at least that’s what I’m looking and hoping for, a balm in Galilee. The better known Balm of Gilead is only mentioned a few times in scripture and always as something with extraordinary healing properties, rare, and valuable. The idea was later adopted and incorporated into an African […]
Read MoreLast year I got captivated by Josh Ritter’s “A Girl in the War” which influence my sermon. After preaching at both services, I realized that it really had been a poem. Over the course of the year, I’ve come back to my notes from the week and from re-listening to the sermon. Here’s what that […]
Read MoreA recent post by Tony Jones on Theoblogy called for a schism over the question of women’s ordination.** This has kicked off some response. I, as a woman ordained in a liberal branch of Christ’s Church, don’t agree. You might think that I’d appreciate the solidarity for women’s ordination. After all I get quizzical looks and questions […]
Read MoreIn the last month almost everything has changed. I’m living in a new city and country; part of a new Diocese in a new Province, rector of a new parish, and settling into my new apartment. Everything is more than fine. Not only is the dog still with me, but Edmonton, my parish, and the […]
Read MoreI started seminary the fall after I graduated college. I moved across the country and, as it happened, away from a Church situation that was…unhealthy…for me. It had been difficult for more than a year before I left. I felt I had little community at my Church; I was not being fed spiritually. I even […]
Read MoreI wrote the last post when I should have been packing. I haven’t written since because I’ve been trying to keep up with those things I should have and need to do. But also, I’ve feared, because right now all of the words are hard to write. It is still easy to slip out of […]
Read MoreSomewhere around the 4th or 5th week of Easter, I find myself remembering my friend, classmate, and colleague the Rev Cody Unterseher. I think about Cody not because the anniversary of his death is around this time of the year (April 25). I remember Cody because of what happened on Facebook in 2010. Cody and […]
Read MoreThis week has been bad. I don’t know the adjectives to describe how bad. It started with tragedy for too many people as the rest of the nation watched with horror, prayed in sympathy, and helped in kindness. But the week refused to stop there. Monday’s bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon […]
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