A Random Selection of Posts from “On the Way”

Kayla McClurg periodically shared wisdom from others and from herself in website posts. Her 26 posts from 2006 to 2014 are in this collection. Some of them appear below in random order.

  • Resting Into Real Faith

    by Jim Knight This morning during my prayer time, I read these words of Henri Nouwen in his book Making All Things New: “Our first task is to dispel the vague, murky feelings of discontent and to look critically at how we are living our lives. This requires honesty, courage and trust. We must honestly unmask and courageously confront our many self-deceptive games. We must trust that our honesty and courage will lead us not to despair, … Read More

  • Following a Nonviolent Way

    by Blair Pettyjohn I was once at a friend’s house when she introduced me to a man who was helping her with household repairs. I still remember the kind and gentle spirit of this man; I don’t know many people who have made a better first impression on me. When I was leaving, I noticed his pick-up truck had a bumper sticker that promoted gun ownership. While I disagreed with the bumper sticker, I didn’t … Read More

  • Being Church NOW

    by N. Gordon Cosby There is absolutely nothing new about a new form of church. The church, the Body of Christ, is always changing. We take our form in the local and global environment of our particular period of history. We bring our society, the total global community, to God’s vision of newness, and we ask what Jesus would want his community to look like now, against this global backdrop. During Jesus’ time he asked what … Read More

  • Living Into Change

    by Marjory Bankson We are once again standing at a turning point in the life of The Church of the Saviour. The Potter’s House Church has set down its call, and the Eighth Day Faith Community, through the Banyan Tree Mission Group, has picked it up. For some, this time feels like death. For others, it is an exciting time of new birth. When Peter and I arrived at The Church of the Saviour in 1976, we had read all of Elizabeth O’Connor’s … Read More

  • Birthing a Different World

    by Susan Morley “There is an urge among us to birth a different world.” – Paul Hawken Birthing a baby is more than enough challenge, but a new world! Yikes! Advent is upon us and I am keenly aware of the craving for a different world. The Prayer Hut in Primavera Center is waiting for a symbol worthy of the inner work needed this season. Yet inner movements remain subtle. Clues often are all that … Read More

  • The Invitation to Reconciliation

    by Kate Lasso Traditionally, the Advent season begins with a period of penitence and fasting. Liturgically the use of purple during the weeks leading up to Christmas creates a visual connection between Advent and Lent, the two periods of preparation for Jesus’ birth and death. For early Christians, these four weeks were inextricably linked to the knowledge that Christ came as the “Word made flesh” to live among us and reveal God’s truth to the … Read More

  • Stay Centered and Enjoy

    by N. Gordon Cosby There are some things we can’t hear until we know we have a problem. We hear what we are ready to hear. I am familiar with a problem which I have to work with in my own life, and I expect some of you have to work with it as well, that has been with me a good part of my life. Is there an answer to this problem, or is it just … Read More

  • On My Way to Where I Want to Be

    by Audrey Metz “Where are you in your journey of being with ‘the least of these’?” That is a question that makes me a bit uncomfortable because I haven’t gotten very far. I’m further along the road than I was a year ago, even six months ago, but any progress I’ve made has very little to do with any maps I drew up or any goal I set for myself. I believe that God got … Read More