Christine Caine has haunted me with this — Jesus never wastes one word, let alone three. So there must be some significance in this second shortest verse in the Bible: Remember Lot’s wife! — Whoa…. Wanna check that? It’s Luke…

An online friend and colleague wrote this — It is a strange kind of love that shouts, “Oh how I love you” as they wave them over the hill knowing the bridge is out. A lot of preaching is doing…

From a friend and colleague — When I was a young pastor I attended a “Preacher Retreat”. I was shocked to hear an older pastor say that the meanest people that he had ever known were in the church. He…

Holiness is so much more than we realize! Our preacher reminded us it’s more than abstinence from sin; it’s about wholeness and restoration!! — Wish I’d said that.Now I just need to remember that.

Pull up a chair. Let’s listen and learn —- “The Allman Brothers band is one of the all-time, good-cookin’ bands. their forte isn’t their material per se, but the way in which it is done. While keeping the basic musical…

Rabbi Rami Shapiro wrote this — There are those who imagine that being spiritually awake means being free from addiction and all harmful and hurtful behaviors. The spiritually awake person, we imagine, lives in a state of perfect satchitananda: being,…

Ryan Holiday, the author of 15 books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Conspiracy and Stillness is the Key, calls himself a professional reader. “That’s really what authors are. A book is made…

Becca Girrell is an online friend and a colleague, who says a lot in what follows — Here’s my weekly enews reflection to my congregation demonstrating how I’m talking about it: The post-Superbowl “Monday Morning Quarterbacking” among my faith-leader colleagues…

Two significant pieces of relationship advice from radio friend Dr. Laura and one from our own Bishop Sharon A. Brown Christopher — Choose wisely Treat kindly Be attentive — apply as needed by both.

For you as Ash Wednesday arrives. May the ashes that will lead us into Lent be an invocation, an invitation. So many blessings to you, beloveds, as the new season unfolds. THE WAY THAT ASHES KNOWA Blessing for Ash Wednesday…