Fasting in a Pandemic
How involuntarily fasting from normalcy this Lent teaches us humility, gratitude, and solidarity.
Ministry
Jonathan Merritt On A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation
In his latest book, Learning to Speaking God from Scratch, best-selling author and religion writer Jonathan Merritt, discusses a chronic pain condition that left him “blurred” and “helpless like Job” (Merritt 96). In a recent post, Merritt adds that he sought out mindfulness meditation and yoga in order …
Las Posadas: Where Can Hope Find Lodging?
Las Posadas: Where Can Hope Find Lodging? A Sermon for Binkley Baptist Church, the First Sunday of Advent—Hope Texts: Jeremiah 33: 14-16 and Luke 21: 25-36 I’m a sucker for good nativity story. Give me a children’s re-enactment of Luke Chapter 2, with its first-grade …
Looking At My Nadir (Guest Post by Melanie Weldon-Soiset)
“Crap!,” I screamed as I banged my leg against the sharp cabinet corner. After glaring at the eponymous cabinet in the living room, I assessed the damage on my left thigh, which was now in the bathroom with the rest of me. The quickly spreading …
Confessions of a Failed Sabbath Keeper (Guest Post by Michael Williams)
Oh, I know a little something about sabbath. I have been in the process of learning about it from various sources almost all my life. When I was a child there were “blue laws” in the community where I grew up, which meant that stores …
Do One Thing to Change the World (Guest Post by Rebecca J. Hubbard)
Navigating the multi and varied chasms of life is at times difficult and challenging. Especially when your job is picking up the pieces from abuse and neglect. Hearing the abuse experiences of children as young as a few years old has the tendency to unhinge …