By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return. –Genesis 3:19, NRSV All go to one place; all are from the dust, …
Remember the famous Biblical proverb from Luke 4:34, “Physician, heal thyself!”? Well, I’m in need of my own #ForSabbathsSake medicine. Last weekend, Fred and I sabbathed with the amazing Myers Park Baptist Church for their 75th Jubilee Year Inter-Generational Retreat. Through three sessions, five worship …
Last week was a hard grief week. It marked the one-year anniversary of Mom breaking her arm and moving to an assisted living facility. The day she moved, we got her settled by mid-afternoon, where she enjoyed ginger ale and an egg salad sandwich at …
By the time you read this, I’ll be on a cruise ship, recovering from North Carolina’s record-breaking snow. It’s a much-needed reprieve from only a month’s worth of winter, one that even a balmy 60-degree weekend couldn’t melt in the shadowy places. As much as …
On Monday, The Washington Post published a piece quoting former Facebook VP, Chamath Palihapitiya, on the “tremendous guilt” he feels over his participation in the way social media has dissolved “the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other.” “Social media is …
[This is part of an article written as a post for Steve Austin’s Grace is Messy blog. Click the link below to read the entire article on his site.] I am a fledgling sabbath-keeper. Though I’ve written a book about it, embraced my 52 chances …