Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
Grace is the unfailing commitment to love all persons, regardless of their beliefs. Only grace makes it possible for those who believe differently to respect and relate to one another. Grace allows us to disagree, to challenge the damaging beliefs of others even as we are challenged and to do this [...]

Posted in Grace Meditations, Love and Grace 10 Comments »

Now there’s a post title that gives you warm goose bumps from head to toe but really, after the comments following yesterday’s post I thought a little perspective was in order before I start buying into the saintly version of me I was starting to string together with your kind words. And besides, at [...]

Posted in Christian Living, Love and Grace 4 Comments »

You are known in hiddenness
a prayer by Walter Brueggeman
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God hidden from us in your myriad verbs,
…..we confess you where we do not see you;
…..…..in healings,
…..…..in emancipations,
…..…..in feedings,
…..…..in forgiveness,
…..…..in many ways of newness.
We do not see you, but we dare to name you
…..by our best names -
.…..….we name you father and mother,
…..…..we make you lord and [...]

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Incoming metaphor! Stop, drop, and roll.
I’ve only entered two other races in my short “athletic” career. I completed a half-marathon a couple summers ago which turned out to be a miserable experience due to ridiculously hot weather that slowed me to a pace considered competitive only among potato bugs. By the time I crossed the [...]

Posted in Christian Living, Love and Grace, SisterFriends, Storytelling 8 Comments »

Turn up the volume and click the right arrow to hear what is the one most true thing.
["You Are Being Loved" by Steven Curtis Chapman from his album "This Moment"]

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Posted in Audio/Video, I Wish I'd Drawn It, I Wish I'd Written It, Love and Grace 8 Comments »

This is a portion of Wendy’s response to my entry, God Revealed or What’s It Look Like When God Shows Up?
I just want to save this to read it over and over again . . .when I sit in church and wonder whether I am “worthy” to take communion.
Dear Wendy,
Thank you for your willingness to [...]

Posted in Church, Love and Grace, Theology 2 Comments »

Several weeks ago over at *! [ emphatic emphasis], Shush posted on Sighted Faith, an entry I so connected with that as I read each line I found my head involuntarily nodding in agreement like a plastic dachshund bobble head in the rear window of a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba. For me as well, faith is [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Coming Out, Faith, Storytelling 13 Comments »

I’m a Goof Ball. Whether it’s attributed to my middle-aged mental deterioration or faulty genetic coding remains to be discovered. All I know is I have what seems to be an innate propensity for those actions most attributed to those of a pathological Goof Ball and two nights ago was no exception. Case in point.
My [...]

Posted in Storytelling, Theology 1 Comment »

This wonderful cartoon is by David Hayward of nakedpastor. I’ve been following David’s blog for some time. David is a pastor up in New Brunswick, Canada, a musician, artist, and a genuine, nice guy. David shares with great honesty about his doubts, questions, struggles and joys of being a man, a father, a Christian, [...]

Posted in I Wish I'd Drawn It, Love and Grace 1 Comment »

At some undetermined moment in history, slightly after the ink dried on the first run edition of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible and before last Tuesday, it was decided that every focus group needed their own translation of the Bible. I’m inclined to believe this has a little less to do with providing tools for the spiritual [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Love and Grace, The Bible and Homosexuality 3 Comments »