Why do I keep returning to Palestine? Why, for the third year in a row, do I pack and board planes and change dollars into shekels? Why do I keep coming back to this place, and not Zanzibar or Paris or Morocco? I remember a conversation I had once with the then-U.S. ambassador to Burundi […]
Welcome To The Brave, New, World
by on March 27, 2019 Leave a Comment
Dear Leah, In two months, everything will change. You will pack your bags, move across the country and into a small apartment to live with your partner (who you will then call husband) and his two cats. You will look for a new job. You will hunt for a grocery store that you like, and […]
A Blind Woman’s Reading of Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark
by on March 3, 2019 Leave a Comment
[image: the sun streaming through the blinds with its shadow cast on the carpet and dark wooden piece of furniture. With the quoted text “I have to remind myself to listen more to the content than the idiosyncrasy of who’s speaking.”] By Ellen Bartlett I have been totally blind for more than three quarters of […]
Faithfulness in Such a Time as This
by on February 17, 2019 Leave a Comment
Are you serious God? You have me right here right NOW? This month? This situation? This is the prayer I have been praying a lot lately. I am in the middle of an ordination process with a denomination that is about to have a major conference on how we are going to move forward and […]
What If God is Not Silent?
by on January 22, 2019 Leave a Comment
I was in my early twenties the first time I ever heard someone speak about God being silent. I took the first of a few classes from the poet Luci Shaw. She was a friend of my mom. Luci had written a book about the death of her late husband, Harold, entitled, God in the […]
