Becoming Human – May 3, 2023
“None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are… The solitary, isolated human being is […]
What Did I Expect?
When I agreed to follow Jesus, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was forty years old, and had spent most of my life alternately yearning for and avoiding a deeper relationship with God. When I was in my early teens, I went to a Jewish summer camp in the San Bernardino […]
The Risk – July 21, 2022
“‘I am the gate,’ said Jesus. Following his way is often a matter of taking the chain off the post and crossing an unfamiliar field. You take the risk.” —Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus, p. 200
Calling – July 5, 2022
“Would you believe I have known seasons in which even the cadence of my voice has changed so that I might belong to a group of people whose stories and thoughts and ways were never anything like mine? But each year I know love and belonging—a love that doesn’t require sacrifice at the door of […]
