A Note from Red Couch Book Club Editor Annie Rim: The way we’re engaging with books here at the Red Couch has changed this year––you can read more about these changes over here at What’s Next for the Red Couch? Instead of an introduction and discussion post, we’ll be featuring reflections in the midst of […]
What’s Next for the Red Couch BookClub?
by on March 5, 2020 1 Comment
I used to be a classroom teacher. One of my favorite things to do was present my class of eight-year-olds with ideas and then let them make their own connections. In some cases––like math class––they would make connections and we’d have to keep solving the problem to get to an answer that worked. In other […]
The Red Couch: Once We Were Strangers Discussion
by on November 26, 2019 Leave a Comment
I once had a friend from Brazil who became my unexpected house guest. We first met as student missionary teachers in Puerto Rico when I was 19 years old. Once the school year ended, she moved with me to my house in California where we also planned to work as camp counselors together. Because she […]
The Red Couch: Once We Were Strangers Introduction
by on November 6, 2019 Leave a Comment
Those of us who want to serve others like programs and events. They have defined timelines and expected outcomes. We get to show up and give money or time to a cause. And then we get to walk away. Reading Shawn Smucker’s memoir Once We Were Strangers, I was reminded of the time my “program” of […]
The Red Couch: No Other Gods Discussion
by on October 2, 2019 Leave a Comment
I knew the Rosary and the Ten Commandments before I knew the Pledge of Allegiance. I knew the Stations of the Cross before I ever heard we had a constitution of the United States. When we were little the priest caught my brothers drinking the holy water and daring their buddies to do the same. […]
