Author: Chris Braudaway-Bauman   As I’ve been getting ready for my sabbatical, the light touch of author Anne Lamott has offered me some humorous encouragement. “Sometimes the best thing we can do is plant our butt on a rock...

 Author: Linda Kowatch   While William Shakespeare opened with those famous words in Richard III, it seems somewhat descriptive of what we have been experiencing the past 23 months. We have faced so much trauma through Covid...

Author: Larry Dansky   When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. Corinthians 13:11   At this time the...

Author: Jean Abbott Loss comes in many forms and throughout life. I learned fairly early about Ira Byock’s book, The Four Things That Matter Most: saying “Forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you.”...

By Lynn Klyde-Allaman   “God, open my lips, that my mouth may declare your praise.”   These words open the T’filah, one of the main prayers in the Jewish Sabbath service. “T’filah” literally means  “the...

Author: Nicole Speer Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. ~Matthew 10:34 Since taking office almost 5 months ago I have been battling a growing sense of despair....

Author: Nancy Wade   “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore  Nearly seven years ago, political circumstances at work made it necessary for me to retire earlier than...

 Author: Carolyn Gard   "Geology has no more important lesson to teach than the vastness of time." Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. We have a set of books that we always take on road trips – Roadside Geology for each...