Today church made me sad

March 31, 2013 By 9 Comments

I woke up this morning with a sigh.  I don’t every morning.  But today I did because it’s Sunday, and on Sunday I go to church, and sometimes church makes me sad.   But I do recall one wonderful Sunday, when I was about 23.  I was volunteering with a local disability support service and [...]

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On Pants & Shootings: How will it end?

December 16, 2012 By 15 Comments

Last week one of my readers invited me to participate in the ‘Wear Pants to Church’ Sunday campaign.  She gave me a link to the Facebook page so I could get a sense of what this was all about.  I smiled to myself and thought it sounded like a bit of a giggle.  And then [...]

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Horses, Church Leadership, Boundary changes and Christ

January 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

I’ve been doing some training  in natural horsemanship.  Its a gentle and more intuitive method of both being with and riding horses.  We learn to read the body language of the horse, to place gentle pressure on the horse in order to have them do as you require and then quickly release that pressure when [...]

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