Category Archives: God in Relationships

relationships human, divine and with the creatures… intimacy & worship

Post No. 8 – Home Again

Post No. 8 Coming Home – Fairmont, Montana to Coles Road, Whidbey Island Perhaps we leave home because of home, not so much to escape home, but more to intensify our view of home, to help us see so much … Continue reading

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A Meditation for Holy Saturday 2017

On the Other Side of Words:  A Mediation on Holy Saturday 2017 Holy Saturday, the day between the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus, in which hope and God appear to be dead and gone. This day is only rarely … Continue reading

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All of Us, all the families of the Earth!

..and in you all of the families of the earth shall be blessed. Gen. 12:3 God loves the world so much that the Holy One, continues to give us the gift of Jesus,  whose life and death together, the ministry and … Continue reading

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What do we do with our anger and rage in lament?

If the emotion in the pit of your stomach after watching another killing of an African American man, a suicide bombing, a car-crash, stabbing, or a sniper killing is anger and rage, then it is anger and rage. Continue reading

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Great Soup in Honor of Fallen Giantess

Golden Soup for the Day that the Tree Fell It wasn’t planned, the falling of the tree that is. It just happened that I made this wonderful soup on this day that the tree fell. Still, I want the soup … Continue reading

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“A Great Disillusionment”

“A great disillusionment”… A brief report from one of the book groups so far                        By Kathryn Rickert, Ph.D. [This article pertains to a book group reading Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We … Continue reading

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A Sermon I’d want to hear on the 1st Sunday of Christmas 2015

I do not come to worship on the first Sunday of the 12 days of Christmas because I am struggling with the challenges of the Christian faith; I come because for a least a little while, the Christian faith is … Continue reading

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Advent – a response to terrorism and abuse

something about the pull of violent evil disturbs the balance of our vision so that instead of seeing clearly where the evil is, came from, and is going; our sight is clouded by fear and rage. Instead of keeping open the “lines of sight” between ourselves and the sources and practioners of violent evil, lines of sight that allow for a critical understanding of the sources, courses, directions of and responses to evil, … Continue reading

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Holy Saturday

What is missing when we zip from Good Friday to the Easter Vigil (or Easter morning) without allowing the weight and beauty and intimacy of this holy day to sink into our souls?
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The Staff of the Holy Food Cafe- A Poem

A poem pondering the ways of God from the perspective of the staff at the Holy Food Cafe
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