How Are You Stewarding Your Life?
A few weeks ago, the daily meditation from SSJE’s “Brother Give Us a Word” caught and held my attention. The excerpt, from this sermon by Curtis Almquist, reads as follows: We don’t possess our own lives. We are stewards of the life that God has given us, and for...
No One in Our Species Is Automatically Our Enemy
I was recently listening to an On Being discussion between Krista Tippett and Isabel Wilkerson, the author of Caste, a book we have read in our antiracism discussion group. Wilkerson was talking about the importance of those who are not in a subordinated caste needing...
Slowing, Noticing, Being
Last month, I was blessed to spend a couple of weeks with my mom in the mountains of Colorado. Although the town and the townhome were familiar, the territory was new in some senses. It’s Mom’s first summer there without Dad, who died in April. She and I are also...
There’s No Such Thing as Empty Space
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I want to write about the Oppenheimer movie today. I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, though that is mostly because I just don’t watch movies. (I prefer books, in large part because of how much time I spend in front of a...
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