Legalism and Grace

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Recently I was at the grocery store checking out. I realized I needed to go to the restroom and asked the checkout person if I could leave my cart there and go when she was all finished. A lot of the checkout people there recognize me but I didn’t know this one, [more]

 
Reflections and resolutions

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. This is my third New Year’s since the onset of Crohn’s Disease. Thinking about New Year’s resolutions can be depressing with a chronic illness. How can I resolve to do anything ahead of time when I don’t know I’ll be feeling? I read something very freeing some years ago. It’s become even [more]

 
What Christmas means to me

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Here’s something I wrote last December for one of the local newspapers. My ex-church was inviting community members to provide input on what Christmas meant to them and the local newspaper joined in. The photo is from a number of years ago – my children are now in high school. “What does [more]

 
Christian Power Plays

This is a copy of my fifth post on the Communitas Collective blog. It seems to me that ‘Christian Power Play’ should be an oxymoron.However, the words and actions of some Christians imply otherwise. After reading the local newspaper this week I wrote the following response to a column by a Christian. In her December 2 column Virginia Seuffert argues that public schools should display [more]

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