R took this photo… it’s a very common sight in the rear-view mirror these days…

A car photo seems appropriate for my “see ya later” post… I’m off to the Motherland for the women’s conference. Am I ready? NO. But it will come together.
Today was my seventh Pentecost at SPC. Pentecost, 2003 was my first Sunday […]

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else’s hourly failure to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to […]

1. Still here. Getting ready for women’s conference in the motherland… also finishing up the first article of the new series.
2. Houstonians will get a kick out of this. I know what that sky feels like. And I can smell the fumes.

3. ¡Sotomayor!
It’s just fun to say.
4. J has strep throat. Let’s hope he […]

This is in response to Bruce Reyes-Chow’s thoughtful post. I started to comment but it got too long.
I’m not quite ready to say “thou shalt” or “thou shalt not” twitter in worship. Those decisions are very contextual. But I have been thinking about this question since the original “straw poll” took place… via Twitter, I […]

Betwixt and between today. Thinking about a great many things.
Getting ready to lead worship at Women’s Conference in the heart of the Motherland in a couple of weeks. Need to write some prayers, work on some multimedia stuff, write a sermon, and hopefully, learn the biblical text so I can tell it rather than read […]

1. I have revived on Facebook my new favorite question: would you rather be wrong or boring? Keith rightly points out that they are not mutually exclusive, but given the choice, I would rather be wrong. I’m primarily talking about preaching here. This answer assumes that I am unlikely to be so very very wrong […]

The Double-Daring Book for Girls
by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
Reviewed for MotherTalk
I wrote about the first Daring Book for Girls here, and was excited to get a copy of their follow-up. It is again chock-full of even more fun stuff to do with girls (or boys, for that matter), everything from being a private […]

I had a friend who had an unnatural talent for finding four-leaf clovers. She’d just look down and there they’d be.
C seems to have that talent too. She’s found four six in the last two weeks. Now they don’t all jump out at her—she will often crouch for a few minutes at a time, […]

Last night I asked a question on Facebook that I’ve been pondering since preacher camp, but Facebook doesn’t lend itself to discussion so I am re-asking it here:
I’m still formulating the wording, but it has to do with potential. Does a person have some kind of social obligation to work to his or her fullest […]

1. I had a totally amazing time at preacher camp. Confidentiality precludes me from sharing any particular stories, but suffice to say we ate our way through Hip and Hilly, Texas; we read and discussed 31 papers on the lectionary texts; we laughed a LOT; we shared horror stories and grace tales of ministry; and […]