Back in the day, prophets wore animal skins, ate locusts and honey, stood by rivers, cried, “Repent!” These days, Donald Trump calls us to repentance. After all, hasn’t he risen…
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In the days before we cut our hay I remembered how I used to run into our hayfields and flop down looking at the clouds and hay towering over me….
When I eat, I flip on the TV or open my phone. I fly into my head, away from my belly. The screens take me away from what I am…
I pushed the cart out of the oil aisle and turned towards the end cap of books. Woodman’s grocery store stocks a few hardbacks that I check out. My eye…
The next time you go for a walk, feel your feet walking across the ground. What do your footsteps sound like? Listen to their speech. What are they saying? Do…
Right now I’m challenged by my faith and my failure to follow Jesus properly. Yet the basic story of Easter is reassuring and freeing.
During chores, I turn the radio to NPR, because I’m fascinated with current events. My attention is so fixed I almost worship the whole drama. But what good does that…
Ash Wednesday Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turnDesiring this man’s gift and that man’s scopeI know longer strive…
We have an elm that towers over our barn. The wind rocks her branches and I see a big woman, her eyes closed, swaying as if to fierce prayers.
For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and…