She’s been attending the same church her whole life. She’s been on staff for two-thirds of those years. And last evening, we celebrated her retirement. Celebrated her on the occasion of her retirement is a more accurate description. To celebrate a retirement feels, well, odd. But to be able to let Marsha know that she […]

For those of us who have read the parables often, this promised to be a familiar story.  The pastor took us to Luke 19, a story about a successful businessman who gives several employees small stock portfolios to manage while he goes on an extended trip. When he returns he asks each about their return […]

May I offer you some questions today, for conversations you may have? “I ask him what made him laugh today.”  I was talking with a friend whose husband teaches in middle school. She said that over dinner she asks him about his day, but with that focus on laughter. For that couple, it’s a brilliant […]

Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp. As an abstract concept of what following God is about, the notion of a cloud that moves and stops is pretty […]