A Call for Me?

My dad was, in his own words, “just a country doctor with a sniff and sneeze practice.” It was his way of downplaying the extraordinary effort that it had taken him to work his way through medical school during the Depression because he wanted to help people. I also knew that he felt called to […]

Callings – Peter Storey at Seekers, Heading Home Educational Fellowship, Carol Martin on Prison Accompaniment, Family Place Immigrant Support

Callings – Winter 2022 The latest Winter issue of Callings leads with Rev. Peter Storey’s recent visit to Seekers Church where he discussed his life’s ministry and his new book Protest at Midnight. Jeanne Marcus of Bread of Life Church describes the new Heading Home Educational Fellowship for “emerging scholars returning from incarceration”– which was covered in […]

Waiting: The Seedbed of Hope

Everywhere I go, people are busy with their cell phones: scrolling through emails, muttering messages, playing games or watching some video snippet. Filling time with our cell phones is now possible, and so we do it because others are doing it. On the Metro, in line at the grocery store, or sitting in a doctor’s […]

Left Behind

We said good-bye to the Queen of England this past week, with all the pomp and pageantry that England could offer. I was surprised to be up early in front of the TV because I haven’t been a fan of “the royals.” I do remember making a scrapbook of pictures cut from Life magazine when she became […]