Tag: reflections
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on place. and a visit.
Places matter to me. When I think about milestone moments in my life or “eras” where I situate a past self, I always imagine a place. And if I visit such a place, memories and images flood back. The first time I walked into my elementary school cafeteria as an adult, I recognized the place…
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hope?
I must confess I’m having a hard time hoping. I’m not sure where the world is turning. Sure, if you ask me the content of my hope and faith, I can tell you. I can tell you what I know in my head — in my understanding of the faith: the cross, the resurrection, the…
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reflections on year two: am i okay now?
I’ve delayed posting my annual reflection on My Story at King’s Cross Church — longer than I needed anyway. Last year, I made a series of posts, the final which I wrote in late-December out of necessity; it just took me that long to work through my thoughts and feelings. Last year when I reread…
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A Collection of Quotes from Against the Wind
Some quotes I collected from my reading of Dorothee Soelle’s memoir, Against the Wind: A Memoir of a Radical Christian (ISBN: 0-8006-3079-3) where she writes about the events and relationships that shaped her life. Each of these quotes could get a post on their own; maybe I’ll just do a few select ones. Anyway, with…
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reading Dorothee Sölle and the passive church
I can’t remember where I first encountered her name; it was probably a few weeks ago on a podcast or an article I was reading. I learned that she was a German liberation theologian in the wake of WWII. I was intrigued enough to search the library for any of her books; when the search…
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Holy Week and Reflections on Easter 2025
It’s Easter Monday. The lead up to Easter this year was a bit different because I was away with friends and family having an adventure in Utah. We went to Moab and visited Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park, then skied for a few days — our first time…