“By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night. I believe that it is very difficult to know who we are until we understand where and when we are. I think everyone in every culture has felt a sense ofContinue reading “On This We Can Agree”
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What are you grounded in?
As you move through your day, your week, your life, it’s a question worth asking. Heidi Petersen “To go among the trees”
Not armor, just socks
Today’s advent devotion is from the book Season of Promises by Mitch Finley: The Advent season is a season of homely things—”homely” in the dictionary’s first meaning of the word, “characteristic of the home or of home life.” Advent is a season of homely things because during this season we prepare for the coming ofContinue reading “Not armor, just socks”
Many rooms, many seasons
Just read a wonderful piece by Mike Cope about how we experience and express our faith in very different ways: enjoy! Do you ever feel out of place with fellow believers—perhaps like no one “gets” you? It may simply be that you are a “winter believer” while they are “summer believers ” (or vice versa).Continue reading “Many rooms, many seasons”
Grace in the Parenting Storm
It was hard to ignore all the media swirling around the Time magazine cover on “attachment parenting” last week. The shot of the mother nursing a boy who appeared old enough to play t-ball was designed to stop us in our tracks—it did, good job with that—still, I found myself curiously unstirred about the issueContinue reading “Grace in the Parenting Storm”
Heather Choate Davis 