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I realize that I’m feeling now like I felt in the first few days of the pandemic: helplessly facing something deadly. Maybe that’s why...

We’ve hosted the holidays for our family/friend group for eighteen years. All the holidays, every year.  We enjoyed it and had the house...

No one is eating anyone’s pets; we’re consuming each other instead.   There are calls from both sides to tone down the rhetoric, however,...

“We are racist.” The words came out as both realization and confession. Courtney was reacting to a conversation I was facilitating about...

Somethings are timely because they have a deadline. The sermon is due Sunday morning, ready or not-it’s time! For me, the moving van is...

What to take with us, what to leave behind. How do we decide? You may remember that my husband and I are at the beginning of a move that...

As we sat on the deck of my dear friend’s home on Whidbey Island, over-looking the Sound, we talked about “tiptoeing toward retirement.” ...

By Rev. Michael Girlinghouse The social ministry committee of a large, suburban church stood before their council to propose adopting and...

“We tried that already. It didn’t work.” I don’t like hearing that. But it’s worse when I don’t hear it, when I just see their eyes roll,...