It’s early December and the days grow shorter. Where I live in Northern California, our “winter” doesn’t consist of snow and single digit temperatures, but the quality of sunlight is nevertheless different, many of our trees are dropping leaves, and the rains will inevitably come. The natural world is entering …
From the November 13 worship service:
Once upon a time, there lived a young woman named Cecilia. She lived in the same village where she’d been born, and where her mother had been born, and her father, and their mothers and fathers. She knew everyone in the village. She knew every house in the village. She …
When you go to college, people start asking you, “What’s your major?” When you enter the ministry, people start saying, “Tell me about your call.” The idea of having a “calling” or receiving a “call” comes from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and is described pretty thoroughly here, beginning with this …
The Center for the New American Dream is issuing a 2011 “Simplify the Holidays” challenge, noting “too often, the holidays seem to exhaust rather than uplift us.” The challenge invites us to commit to taking five actions in support of a simpler holiday season. I’m in! Won’t you join me? …
The number one question I am asked in my work as a chaplain to people struggling with thought and mood disorders is some version of “Why does God let me suffer?” What I affirm again and again is that it’s a good question, that it’s okay to feel angry with …
October 2-8 is Mental Illness Awareness Week (sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness), and today is National Depression Screening Day. You can screen yourself or a loved one online here.
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