Pentecost Hearing
Our talk began simply: “What’s good about writing an IO reflection? What’s hard for you?” We laughed as common complaints came up about keeping the reflection short enough for reading on a cell-phone, and nodded over differences in how long one needed to dwell with the scripture to let a personal experience emerge. Although we […]
The Journey – Jan. 2, 2023
“Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone out someone has writtensomething newin the ashesof your life You are not leaving…you are arriving“ –David Whyte, excerpt from “The Journey”, The House of Belonging, p. 38 Full poem: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/
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 […]
Responsibility – May 12, 2020
“For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. And now there’s another layer of responsibility, writing on a thin sheet of tree and hoping the words are worth it. Such a thought could make a […]
