Moving Toward Conflict
Greetings from Chicago! (Ok, I’m in Lombard, but that is close enough to me.) This week I am attending the Mediation Skills Training Institute for Church Leaders put on by the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center. That’s a really long title, but in a nutshell it is a full week of…
Interview, Renovation, Vacation
Interview This Sunday I’ll be doing an interview/dialogue sermon with Rev. Lane Campbell. Lane is a young white woman who is co-leader of the Columbus chapter of SURJ – Showing Up for Racial Justice. This is the group that helped organize the public action Mark, Austin, and Adam spoke…
Meat in Leviticus
This afternoon I was re-reading Leviticus 19, the chapter that contains the commandment at the crux of the Parable of the Good Samaritan: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” However, after back-pedaling into Leviticus 17, I got wrapped up in the proper slaughtering of animals. After consulting Jacob…
Probing for answers
One of the bright spots in what’s deemed ‘news’ these days is the Juno probe. NASA launched it back in August of 2011 and it is just now making its way to Jupiter. Long trip. It will spend the next 20 months orbiting Jupiter 37 times, collecting all kinds of…
Places with messages
Last week I served as camp pastor at Camp Friedenswald in southern Michigan. Eve and Lily attended as campers and Abbie and Ila and I got to enjoy the “Peaceful Woods” and join in the action. It was a lot of work – ten sermons in one week –…
