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“O Holy Night”

We sang this hymn in church today.  In the wake of Friday morning’s massacre of a first-grade class of school children, the meaning of “O Holy Night” made me cry like a baby.  (Never mind my husband’s running joke that [...]

Visio Divina (The Visual Word): An Advent Series

Starting tomorrow we’re in for a treat.  That’s when we’ll begin a special Advent series featuring the photography of the very talented, fellow saint and sinner Katie Archibald-Woodward.  (Just think: we’ll get to say that we knew Katie before she [...]

Wacky Wednesday: Villainy and Veneration

First, villainy… By way of an addendum to my recent review of the new James Bond flick, fellow saint and sinner Michael Frost has shared a wonderful resource: The Ultimate James Bond Fansite.  If you’ve ever entertained the notion of being [...]

Augustine Tweets for Restless Souls

I’m convinced that if he lived today, the early church father, Augustine, would like Twitter and I would be one of his followers. Augustine once said of the God he worshiped: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” I love [...]

Nature and Grace

If you read yesterday’s sermon, you may have caught some refrains on this theme. The picture I mentioned of the leopard snuggling with a baby antelope might almost pass as a Hallmark card, were it not for the fact that [...]

Then God Said “Let It Be Messy”

Church planter and professor A.J. Swoboda has a book out, and it’s worth a read.  My review of Swoboda’s book, which aired today in the Episcopal Church’s very helpful, ecumenical publication, Sermons That Work (http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com), is reprinted in full below with [...]

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Small, Big World
It's good to be back here at this intersection between life and God. While we were away, my husband picked up a large coffee table book about space. (It's no wonder that he once nursed a d

posted 11:31:28am Jun. 18, 2013 | read full post »

Face Into the Wind
Greetings from Shelter Island, New York where I'm vacationing after the completion of the manuscript for Grace Sticks. (Next week I'll be back to the regular schedule of 3-5 posts a week.) "Kemah" is the name of my family's home here; the term is a Native American expression meaning "face into the

posted 12:39:48pm Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

Mental Health Break: "Dead Sea"
This week's feature comes from one of my favorite bands, The Lumineers, who recently performed in my city of Atlanta. "Dead Sea" is a song for every restless soul w

posted 10:05:49am Jun. 05, 2013 | read full post »

God of the Gaps: Survey Finds Americans Pray More in Disasters
It's another week of hermitic writing, I'm afraid, so you'll be hearing less from me as I push through edits from a second revision. But this morning I stumbled upon a report from Religion Today which I found interesting in light of my church small group's conversation yesterday around prayer and le

posted 10:57:37am Jun. 03, 2013 | read full post »

Talking Albatrosses and Freckled Monsters: The Power of Imagination
The other day as I sent my hubby and kids off to an escape at the beach far away from my manic dash to the finish line on the manuscript for Grace Sticks, I was struck on

posted 2:05:44pm Jun. 01, 2013 | read full post »


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