Long Lake Artist-in-Residency Day 1
On Long Lake at this special church camp, this time with an artist-in residency! I’ll be showing you progress photos of my art this week.
Church
Our Graduate’s Lovely Church Sendoff
The State College Christian Science church has been loving and supportive, and has made a big, positive difference in our daughter’s college experience.
Nursing Our Churches
I was the middle speaker on a panel both in CT and NYC. I spoke about how to “nurse our churches.” This is the gist of what I said…
Thanksgiving Photos 2018
I have so much to be grateful for, but I need to mention here my gratitude for each of you readers of this blog! Thank you for your attention and caring.
Great Bible Workshops Available
His workshops are warm and discussion based, undogmatic, inclusive, engaging, and encourage questioning.
Church is… (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Church is a framework for my week.
It gives structure to my days,
which would stretch forth
endlessly otherwise.
Annual Meeting 2018
Here are my snippets of notes from a weekend in Boston for Annual Meeting, which was full of superb thinking and wonderful people.
They Should Lash Us to Our Pews (Quote by Anne Dillard)
Does anyone have the foggiest idea of what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it?
Sunday School Lesson: The Walls of Jericho Tumble Down
Here are our Sunday School gleanings from the story of the fall of Jericho, where walls fell down through simple obedience to God’s unusual leadings.
Our Youngest Graduates from Sunday School
Yesterday our daughter graduated from Sunday School with her friend…see photos in this post of our graduation celebration, complete with photos of their Sunday School teachers, with their parents…
The Great Spiritual Migration (Book Review with Notes)
This book makes some major great points and I am encouraged that it is so popular that it is making the rounds. It’s perspective is much needed.
Church in the Garden (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Butterfly wings arch
like cathedral windows
basking in the sun,
their yellow stained glass
Sunday School Lesson on The Ten Commandments
If everyone in the world could actually congregate around these old but perceptive guidelines, there would literally be peace on earth.
Lessons from Moses
I’ll briefly summarize the story of Moses, then I’ll highlight some of the lessons my Sunday School class gleaned.
How Goldfish Got Their Smiles
It pleases me beyond reason that I actually know the person that had enough vision, faith, and fun to put the smiles on those fish!
24 Mistakes (by Jim Palmer)
Putting church over community.
Putting orthodoxy over love.
Putting certainty over wonder.
Putting teaching over conversation…
Sunday School Lessons from Joseph
Here were some of the lessons from this story we discussed in Sunday School: