The readings for tomorrow* are about welcoming the stranger (the eager or curious can find the gospel reading here), and that is what I want to preach about - it's something our community needs to think about. I've been thinking about the dual roles of host & guest, influenced by my (small) knowledge of Japanese religion - that we are both host and ( Read more... )

I keep telling myself that I should be posting more than a bunch of poems, but then I come across a poem that cries out to be shared and I can't resist ( Read more... )

One more poem! Too relevant to my recent musings to not post. (Found on http://maggidawn.com/priest/ but posted elsewhere online too ( Read more... )

Ordination is on my mind, as I prepare for May 30th. My classmates are intelligent and kind, but they are also a lot of Presbyterian men who were almost all formed in some kind of evangelical tradition, and so there is a lot of misogyny flying around. It's been a challenging year for me on that front ( Read more... )

Trust by Thomas R. Smith ( Read more... )

At this point I'm almost alternating poetry & other posts - I hope people don't mind. I found this poem on another blog, and bookmarked it because I thought it was so neat. Today, in an act of procrastination (I aim to make procrastination an art form), I was going through my bookmarks and found it. It's neat, and there are moments when I think it ( Read more... )

Clearly, what I need to post after not posting for weeks and weeks is a poem. This time, in Spanish...

Entre tu pueblo y el mío
hay un punto y una raya.
La raya dice : no hay paso.
El punto, vía cerrada.

Y así entre todos los pueblos,
raya y punto, punto y raya.
Con tantas rayas y puntos
el mapa es un telegrama.

Caminando por el mundo
se ven ( Read more... )

I seem to be on a poetry kick; I've found myself choosing to read poetry over anything else in the last few days, which is slightly unusual for me - I tend to choose to read particular poems by particular authors, but I rarely feel like simply reading poetry more generally ( Read more... )

Speak White was an insult used against French-Canadians by English Canadians when they spoke French in public. Michèle Lalonde wrote the following poem about this expression. It was first read aloud in 1970 ( Read more... )