America 250: What Would Frederick Douglass Say?
“Look for the helpers,” Mr. Rogers’ mother famously told him when he saw something scary on the news. If I may add: look for the helpers and the historians. There is plenty of scary on the news this year, the year of our nation’s semiquincentennial. Looking for the larger story I’ve been born into brings…
Life in the Potter’s Hands
If you were a piece of pottery, what would you be? Here’s a 10-minute imaginative exercise (devotional, spiritual reading, meditation, whatever you’d like to call it) to help you connect with what the Potter is doing in your life right now. Whether your vessel is fully-formed, cracked, broken, spoiled, full, wide-mouthed, colorful, over-used, plain or…
Anxiety
She’s a python Binding me up tight Hanging me upside down And then blaming me For not being able to breathe. She’s a goalkeeper Defending against rest Blocking peace Punting stillness out of the park Until I give up and keep moving. . She’s a circuit scrambler Frying my logic and memory Blowing out…
Jesus, Lover of Questions
Reading the gospels, we encounter a Jesus who loved questions. It was a consistent approach in His conversations, whether with the sick, the religious elite, or his best friends. Sometimes he’d even answer questions with another question! If Jesus employed them, surely questions can be a helpful spiritual tool to get to the heart of…
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Rachel Norris 