You’ve heard me blabber on about FSIL nursing school in Leogane, how I see it as a place of grace, redemption, amazing hope, all that…. well, now you can hear more about it via the NPR radio program Dick Gordon’s “The Story” which will be airing a story about FSIL on January 12, 2012….yeh! Check [...]

Favorite Books- Part II from 2011 Interviews @blog.spiritualbookclub.com These books come recommended, so I’m sharing, who doesn’t love a great book list? Hmmmmm? Sure, there are old stand-bys, but some new ones for you too…. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling Flannery O’Connor’s [...]

25 Books They Loved: @blog.spiritualbookclub.com Our list of interviews this year included a fine host of folks, and here are 25 of their favorite books (we’ll post more books to come too!) It’s eclectic, but who doesn’t like to come across books they’ve never read or have thought, “Oh, yea, I’ve gotta read that.” 1. Women by [...]

Keys to Kingdoms These days it feels like I’m sporting a huge set of keys, driving a rental because my car had a recall, and it’s taking a while for back-ordered parts. All these keys dangling from my key chain remind me of the key ring my father had when I was growing up. He [...]

So, to take you along on this adventure: Among the images you’ll see in the video is a site where a teacher-training center is being built, after it was destroyed in Port au Prince in the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It was moved to safer ground three hours north of Port au Prince, in Liancourt. [...]

How is God coming into the world this Advent? So some “theobloggers” were asked to answer this question in 100 words or less. Here are the responses: http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/God-Coming-Advent-Theoblogger-Challenge-12-05-2011?offset=0&max=1 Here’s my response: “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it.” (Genesis 28:16) I see God’s path in Leogane, in nurses at FSIL [...]

A Gesture “fail” and a Gesture succeeding: Celebrating Advent Once, representing the regional church in the interior of Brazil, in Pendencias, I sat with others from our Presbytery, listening to a translator talk with Brazilian pastors about our partnership. I watched a member of our group turn several shades of gray in the heat, and [...]

Awaiting Word I know about expecting one from the East, finally getting word, knowing a birth date, and a name… A mother’s unexpected pregnancy, while others await eagerly this birth; the baby not born for her, but to be handed over for others it seems, a babe born into bare circumstances– You tell me of [...]

Gotcha Covered: Give these gifts Since 1980 or so,  a bottle of men’s Rexall “Stag” cologne has been wrapped up and rotated through the family, regifted every year. If you get “stagged,” you have to open the bottle, and dab yourself with the cologne. It’s not like fine wine that gets better with time. You’ll [...]

This essay grows out of a question posed by “The Divine Feminine,” a new blog on Patheos, which asks,”What is the Divine Feminine Calling You to Do in This Moment?” I grew up firmly indoctrinated in the male trio of God, meaning, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit were all male, all the time, there was [...]