King Sunday: Abundance & Beloved Community
Now is certainly a time of challenge and controversy in our nation and even in our own community here at Lyndale. In the midst of it, like Mary and like King, we must also hold in loving care both the disparity we live and the possibility for abundance. It’s the combination that is so hard.
Advent: Birthing Hope in Chaos
This Advent season, let us practice knowing our ignorance to what is being born in our midst, especially the divinity in the bodies of those who look different than ourselves. Because something beautiful and divine is being birthed in our city at the 4th precinct too.
Thanksgiving: The Promise and Challenge of Gratitude
It is for this relationship with God…. it is for these gifts that we ought be grateful.
Saintly Encounters
I have come to believe we cheat ourselves when we think of the saints as some other category of people – either those who are flawlessly faithful or those who have died or those who are both those things. I am much more interested in what I am thinking of now as moments of saintly encounter…