Small gestures
On Sunday, rather than lighting the peace candle, worship leader Becca Lachman invited us to place our hand over our heart and imagine the peace candle as a light within us. It’s a prayerful gesture one can access any time. Later in the service there were many candles burning…
Piecing the Puzzle of Scripture
I have been asked to be the featured speaker at the upcoming Jr. High Winter Retreat at Camp Friedenswald in January. For my topic, I decided to go with: “What do we do with the Bible?” I chose this topic partially because the High School Sunday School class is already…
Happy? Anniversary Protestants
What do Facebook and Twitter have in common with the Protestant Reformation? Nothing and everything. Six days from now, October 31, is the 500 year anniversary of the German monk and professor Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg church. It was a list…
Beauty and grief
In the past few days I’ve had multiple conversations about Ohio in October. In short, it’s a beautiful time of year. It’s special. It’s the trees that do it to us. I’m fearing the downward line of societal disintegration, and they’re still there, pointing to circularity. They’ve gathered their…
Journeying with the Anabaptists (Part 2)
As I mentioned last month, I am participating in an online course called ““Exploring Anabaptist History and Theology.” When I wrote the last blog, it was the first week of the course, and we were still looking at the very beginnings of the the Anabaptist movement. Well, we are now…