Clusters of purple wine grapes, resting in the vine
courtesy Pavel Jedlicka

Live from a place of rest

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."

White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem
Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Closeup of the head and shoulders of a newborn infant, with his eyes closed, his left hand grasping the finger of the nurse laying him on his back, and his cheek resting in her other hand.

Life lesson

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.

Path disappearing into woods, with this text: "So in the quietness they ready themselves. Together and alone Listening to the hush that is God They hear when it's time. Then they set out."

Lingering at a crossroads

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."

From the front cover of Forgive Us: White wooden church roof and steeple, beside names of the book's four authors: Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, Soong Chan-Rah.

Forgive us

Review of "Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith" - a book that offers compelling histories of some of the church's greatest shortcomings, along with heartfelt confessions and reasons for hope.