In the early stages of dating, I invited my now husband to come along with me and another of our friends to a Taize service held monthly at a local Franciscan Friary. The service, shaped by meditative silence, prayer, and chants was one I attended regularly. It was a change of pace from the more […]
The Red Couch: Love Undocumented Discussion
by on May 28, 2019 Leave a Comment
Immigration is a hot topic in news and politics. Some days it seems we are inundated with debates over border protection, narratives of immigrant violence and crime, images of refugees risking life and limb, and news about children in cages or detainees kept in holding cells for months on end. I’ll admit, immigration––legal or otherwise––is […]
The Red Couch: The Very Good Gospel Discussion
by on March 26, 2019 Leave a Comment
Scanning the list of Red Couch books for 2019, I stopped at The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper then read on and returned to it. Reading those words, I felt a longing stirring within me. I didn’t know the author or the book description, but I knew that I had to write about […]
The Red Couch: The Very Good Gospel Introduction
by on March 5, 2019 Leave a Comment
Most of us reconstruct our beliefs or our language about God and faith over the years. I’m with Sarah Bessey who says, “if our theology doesn’t shift and change over our lifetimes, then I have to wonder if we’re paying attention.” One slow, aching change has been from a very personal, individualistic view of the […]
The Couch that Launched a Movement
by on September 2, 2018 18 Comments
Not many couches can say they’ve launched a women’s movement. Or a Book Club. But the red couch in our living room did. Leigh Kramer visited one Thanksgiving and when I’d asked her to start a SheLoves bookclub, she thought about this iconic piece of furniture and emailed back: What if we called it the Red Couch […]
