Savoring Blessedness – Sept. 27, 2022

“Consider the memorable tables of your life: kitchen table, dining table, bedside, boardroom, and communion table. Shapes and purposes vary, but these are the tables around which family, friends, colleagues, adversaries have sat with you… Now is the time to bring the gifts of your life to the table: to remember, retrieve, and savor your […]

Embracing God’s Promises – Apr. 29, 2022

“Give us the audacity and strength to withstand what is undesirable so we can hear and embrace your life-giving promises on the other side. Amen.” –Phiwa Langeni, “Memory Omission”, StillSpeaking Daily Devotional for April 9, 2022

Only Love Heals – Jan. 7, 2022

  Most Merciful Sustainer of My Life:   Your love is the holy meaning of life. Your love surges to bring all life into being and carries me into your promised beyond. Your love heals broken hearts and mends fractured homes and nations. Your love speaks in the middle of the night when I feel […]

Pretending – June 21, 2021

“I know that many women are writing about their personal experience, whether religious or not, as if in this postmodern time we can speak of nothing but ourselves. We cannot write authoritatively of history, we are told, for it was recorded wrong, and we have only tainted examples to examine. We ought not write theology […]