Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The first in a series of works by other authors which I am unimaginatively calling "Poems for the Christmas Season." We begin with...

Jesus went around saying crazy things.

" You must be born again. " How are we supposed to do that? " Drink my blood and eat my flesh; in this there is life . ...

The Most Dangerous Woman

The most dangerous woman on earth is the woman who has reckoned with her own death. All women die; few women ever really live .* ...

So I'm re-reading Nouwen's "In the Name of Jesus."

I sat on my couch one evening in the dark, fast forwarding a tape. As the casette advanced, the numbers on my stereo rapidly counted up fr...

My husband and I have this game.

We're not always playing it... and yet we are. The goal is to be as stealthy as possible, to be wily and artful and devious, to reall...

Kessia Reyne, Judge of All

A very strange thing happened to me today. It was disconcerting and wonderful. I had been judging my friend. Like, rolling my eyes and ...

me thinking about the church. part 3.

When it comes to change (*gasp! *choke!) in the church, we are often handicapped, our legs taken right out from under us, because change m...

me thinking about the church. part 2.

I do  have a great many thoughts about the church, but when I read my friend Andrea's post on her  thoughts about the church, I knew I...

me thinking about the church. part 1.

I have to admit that though I love being part of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, any just-out-of-the-box naivete that I ...

The thorn and the gift.

I will not burden you with the full story; you don't have time, and I'm not sure I have the energy. But I couldn't help but shar...

Atonement for an Unsolved Murder

In the heart of a golden barley field lies a man, staring up at the clear sky. The sun and the wind wash over him, but he does not blink. Th...
 

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