Bearing Gifts
They caught my eye in a Guatemalan street market: three kneeling women and a bright star on a painted wooden fish. On the other side of the fish, there were farmers bearing gifts in a field of cornstalks – bread, fruit and a load of wood. Practical gifts. The kind that three wise women would […]
Stay Awake!
Advent celebrates the journey inward, a yearly pilgrimage into darkness and waiting, away from bright lights and busyness, far from words and work to be done. One year, after the edge of a hurricane scoured the East coast, we took our sleeping bags down to a dock and watched the Leonid meteor shower on a […]
What Do We Owe?
Every Friday at 5pm, about a dozen Seekers gather in front of our storefront church with our homemade signs to join the Black Lives Matter movement. Some hold signs that say VOTE NOW! Others hold BLM signs. Others say “Protect the Constitution” and “We Will Not Let This Drop.” Music from the civil rights movement […]
Was Jesus Prejudiced?
Some say Jesus was perfect, all-knowing and all-loving. If so, what are we to make of his snippy retort to the Canaanite woman who wanted healing for her daughter.* “I only came for the lost sheep of Israel,” Jesus said, and, when she persisted, he added, “It’s not fair to take the children’s food and […]
