What The Sneetches teaches
Last Saturday I was doing some house cleaning while listening to a podcast, the most recent episode of NPR’s “Planet Money.” I was intrigued with the title: “The economics lessons in kids’ books.” I was even more intrigued when the episode centered on an elementary classroom “in the Columbus, Ohio…
Coming of Age, Sharing Our Wisdom
I recently read an article about what it means to seek wisdom and was reflecting on how one of my favorite ways to think about this thing we call Christianity is as a “wisdom tradition.” As the article suggests, wisdom can be hard to pin down or define, but it…
Longest night, mammals and all rejoice
Happy Solstice. It’s the shortest day and longest night of the year. It’s the first day of winter and it sounds like winter will soon be felt. It’s a good time for mammals to give thanks for fur, and those who have lost their fur to find a warm blanket,…
‘Tis the season for Incarnational Mysticism
One of the core theological ideas of Advent and Christmas is incarnation. In sum, G-d took human form in the person of Jesus. John’s Gospel has no nativity scene, but does contain this one-sentence incarnational Christmas story: “And the Word became flesh and lived among us.” John 1:14 Some streams…
Midweek Blog: Honoring Ancestors
This past Sunday, the Christian Education Commission put together an Intergenerational Activity to help explore our Advent theme a bit more. Each of the four basement classrooms was themed after one of the four women named in Jesus’ genealogy to match our worship series. Participants had the opportunity to consider…
