Tag: Family

  • The Art of Softening Hearts

    The Art of Softening Hearts

    A poem for the family, for peace and hope and love, for the time and willingness to be together, to make things more real, alive.

  • This family comes first

    This family comes first

    We struggle with talking about family because we have conflicting ideas about the idea, and more importantly, how we embody it.

  • A Bigger Family—for Proper 5B

    A Bigger Family—for Proper 5B

    We focus this week on the way Jesus redefines family. And why this whole story gives us trouble in a world devoted to the nuclear family unit.

  • Family—expanding the network

    Family—expanding the network

    The word family has so much to it: positive and negative. But the call to expand our sense of family is central to our life in faith.

  • Called Beyond Tradition

    Called Beyond Tradition

    Being called to follow Jesus is an invitation to change. A process that naturally separates us from all that we called home.

  • 100 things that made my year (2023)

    100 things that made my year (2023)

    A collection of things that made this year cool, from vacations, things learned, to new things done. All wrapped up in one.

  • The divine beauty of planning a Thanksgiving dinner

    The divine beauty of planning a Thanksgiving dinner

    Thanksgiving is all about the food. That is how must Americans experience Thanksgiving: by eating through it. There are three kinds of Thanksgiving dinners: Always the same. Changing or negotiating between families Eating out. The Same The menu is pretty static for most of us. Turkey and carbs. And for many, the experience is also…

  • Jesus’s Backup

    Jesus’s Backup

    This troubling passage about family isn’t about who is in the family, but about what being family means for the world.