Lent 2023 - Murrelets

I’m a person who loves peace. I hate quarreling with others. The only time I forego my peace mindset is if someone hits a nerve by attempting to bull…

The day's Hebrew scripture reading is Exodus 17:1-7, in which the people quarrel with Moses in the wilderness, angry because they are thirsty and…

At the age of two, my adoptive parents and I were baptized into the Catholic Church together. By all outward appearances we were the dutiful little C…

In my many years as a high school teacher, I was probably challenged and tested at least once a day. I remember one relatively undramatic classroom …

Day 16 In the fall I taught a course for an over-50 academic enrichment program on nineteenth-century women speakers and writers. The writers I focus…

The disciples had gone to buy food, leaving Jesus sitting by Jacob’s Well. Alone. To rest. They didn’t expect to return and find him speaking with …

Friends, I am walking off the known world all next week and will not be in conversation with you again til the following week. I am moved to go Sunda…

Patricia slammed the bread dough down on the big board and kneaded it a few times before checking on the soup simmering on the stove. She tasted it w…

Why do we want miracles? To feel safe. In Exodus, they thirsted in the desert, blamed and complained to their leader and demanded a solution from the…