We make plans, God laughs. Spiritual questions explored.
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This site explores the spiritual questions and answers that lead to more questions. It invites us all to understand that believing in God and responding to God’s call is a lifelong process. We are continually invited to explore what gifts and skills we have to support our communities in bringing God’s Kingdom to earth. In the process of making us more whole, more reconciled, more loved and more loving.
I also explore these questions in the podcast Pursuing Call.
Full disclosure: I am an Episcopalian. I am a progressive womanist theologian. I am a Christian. I am thinking about spirituality with this mixture of mainstreamed and marginalized identities.
What I’m thinking about
Presidential elections make me more faithful
To say that I am afraid is an understatement. My system has been overwhelmed with concern, fear, doubt, anger, outrage, basically name a negative emotion. Donald Trump, ontologically, is the most dangerous thing that has happened to the USA in a while. I know that for most of us who are just trying to buy…
Same call, new location
October 2015, I started working at Episcopal Relief & Development. I originally planned to be a priest – but that didn’t quite work out. Instead, the Spirit and communities of mentors set me on a path of lay employment that I could not have planned. All we can do is see where our great desires…
Original Sin: disconnection
In the season of Lent, I have been thinking a lot about sin. We begin this time with the line “remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.” It comes from the second creation story of Adam and Eve, Genesis 3: 19. And the problem with this focus on Sin as Originally coming…
Pursuing Call 