August 2024 Newsletter
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June 2024 Newsletter
Welcome New Subscribers! If that's not you, just keep scrolling :) If this is your first newsletter, here's what you can expect...
- May 29
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May 2024 Newsletter
Holy Spirit blowing -- Can you feel the Wind? We've moved forward from the Gospels to the book of Acts (sequel to Luke). We're pretty...
- Apr 1
- 3 min
April 2024 Newsletter
What's in a name? Plenty. “Rethink, Retool, Renew” was the first name we came up with. I’d pulled together a small group of clergy...
- Feb 29
- 4 min
February 2024 Newsletter
An Overwhelming Life. A Lenten Reflection Life is overwhelming. Maybe. Or, do we build lives that are overwhelming, when they don’t have...
- Jan 29
- 3 min
January 2024 Newsletter
What do these images have in common? The grumpy folks on the left often trigger our defenses so that we look like the person on the...
- Dec 18, 2023
- 3 min
December 2023 Newsletter
Reflect and Refine During Advent I like to read the Gospel for the new liturgical year. Reading the Gospel of Mark, a chapter at a time,...
- Nov 21, 2023
- 4 min
November 2023 Newsletter
Seems like only a day or so ago we sat in the glow of All Saints naming our dearly departed. We pictured them as saints gathered with...
- Sep 26, 2023
- 2 min
September 2023 Frenetic Fall Fun
Fall is falling – even here in Southern California. We don’t get dramatic changes. Instead, we pay attention to the difference in the...
- Aug 16, 2023
- 2 min
August 2023 Newsletter
On Saturday August 12th, teams from 9 congregations completed our vitality process. I am so proud of them! They started in February of...
- Jul 5, 2023
- 2 min
June/July 2023 Newsletter
What to do when people ignore the facts. I hate it when people ignore the facts. Especially when it's me doing the ignoring. Why do we do...
- May 29, 2023
- 2 min
May 2023 Newsletter
Who says small and scrappy congregations can't do bit things? Not me! Of the 10 congregations working their way through our 18-month...
- Apr 25, 2023
- 2 min
April 2023 Newsletter
Starting with Confession. I'm not good at process. When I want something to change -- I want it to change NOW. Patience is a virtue that...
- Mar 14, 2023
- 2 min
March 2023 Newsletter
The Smudge We Bear A couple of poems are carrying me through this Lent. I’ve always loved Jan Richardson’s Ash Wednesday poem “Blessing...
- Jan 27, 2023
- 2 min
January 2023 Newsletter
97 Reasons to Say "YES!" Epiphany is the season of YES! God revealing Godself everywhere! My mother-in-law has "yes" down pat! What if......
- Dec 14, 2022
- 3 min
December 2022 Newsletter
Too much fun for Advent? If Advent is only for contemplative waiting and yearning, then we're doing it wrong. But, if Advent is a time...
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
November 2022 Newsletter
The ongoing joke in Central and Southern California is that we don’t have seasons. While I admit, the shift is subtle, it does exist. ...
- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
September 2022 Newsletter
September 2 is the first anniversary of Living the Resurrection becoming a company! It’s been a year full of working with you to help...
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
July 2022 Newsletter
My Summer Project (besides painting the ceiling in the den). I've heard from a few of you that congregations in the transition between...
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
May 2022 Newsletter
How to build on the hope in this "I'm Not Okay" moment. Part 1 of 2 I started by grappling with why it's so difficult to admit we are NOT...
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