Advent 2010

Today is the first Sunday in Advent, the four weeks preceding Christmas. Tradition marks this day as the beginning of a new liturgical year in the Church. During Advent Christians prepare, pray, and wait for the coming of the Savior on Christmas. Christians, in...

Miracles

Ten days ago I was in Jerusalem celebrating Shabbat with twenty clergy friends and spouses from Memphis. We were Jews and Christians. We were Christians of six or seven denominations. We were white and African-American. We were youngish and oldish. I’ve never...

Praying in Color Drawing

A couple of months ago, a woman sent me a prayer drawing she had made for her family. It is so beautiful I wanted to share it. Linda is a REAL artist with a website to prove it. When I look at the drawing, however, it does not discourage me or humiliate me for my...

Praying in Color & the Airways

Many thanks to my friend Sharon P. for this guest blog post. I’d like to ‘testify’ how Praying in Color kept me from throwing my phone through a window and my self-respect along with it. Let it be known that (unlike Sybil) I CAN draw a cat. Or at least a recognizable...

Moving

In about two weeks, my husband and I will move to the Detroit area for about a year for an interim ministry position. Not quite ready to give up the people and things I love in Memphis, I’m thinking of this as an extended “field trip,” a chance to...