Although there are many memorable moments when one goes on a spiritual pilgrimage to Iona, two stand out in my mind from my recent experience.
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The first chapter of The Samaritan’s Friend is my retelling of the marriage at Cana; the wedding recounted in John, chapter two, where the water gets turned into wine.
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Oh God of all the Saints, We come to you as a people not simply as individuals. We gather together and pray to you as a community of Saints, both living and in glory.
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Small silver fingers of morning light creep over the ridge across from my front porch. Morning comes on slowly in our little valley.
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I am an English teacher. And, like most English teachers, I love to read. Poetry. Prose. Comics.
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This morning I woke up, got out of bed, skipped dragging a comb across my head (sorry John Lennon), and started my morning chores, my daily routine. My every day routine.
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In my first few years of sobriety, as I was rebuilding my life and it felt like every door was closed to me, my AA sponsor would encourage me to stand in the dark hallway and wait for God to open another door.
One. That’s how many all-nighters I’ve pulled. And it wasn’t even to study or complete a project.
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The Avengers-an elite force.
Is that a force of protection? A force of justice? A force for vengeance? A force for good? A force for evil? A force for vigilantes?
She departs for imagination. She withdraws. She leaves. Not to be rude or show disinterest in the current happening, but to find the creativity that dwells within.
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I am a native North Carolinian and, though I am not as old as the saying is, I remember North Carolina’s logo, “Variety Vacationland.”
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I have spent a majority of my adult life in a fifteen passenger van going from state to state playing country music. I would not trade one thing for my years on the road, nor the hundreds of thousands of miles I drove in that time.
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The context I am serving in is a long-standing Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church that is in the midst of a lot of transition.
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Long ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.
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Since 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.
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Most people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.
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A lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”
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The Missional Wisdom Foundation is appalled by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmad Aubrey, and countless others who have lost their lives because of racism and white privilege.
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