Zoom In! To the Just Peace Players’ New PlaySunday, March 14 at 4:00pm via Zoom Register hereGET UP!!! is a call to get up, share God’s love and end racism. This newest play written and performed by the Just Peace Players calls people to understand how systemic racism impacts our lives and the world. It […]
Palm Fronds
A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God-the King of Israel!’ John 12:12-19 This […]
Deep Roots of Love
A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle How blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is better than the profit of silver and better than fine gold. Wisdom is more precious than jewels; Nothing you desire compares. Long life is in wisdom’s right hand; In the left are […]
Reflecting with a Woodstork among the Trees
A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle But those who hope in God will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 Lent begins with pancakes and ashes.Treats to remember what Jesus gave up?Ashes to recall death and […]
Wondering in Wuhan
A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 It is a hot, hot, hot afternoon in Wuhan, China. Under the leadership of the head of the University […]
The Dog Lady of Claypit
A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle But Jesus called for them and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Luke 18:16 I have become the dog lady at the Claypit Hill Elementary School. Jeannie the dog […]
Peacemakers
Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. Mark 15:15 As we reflect on the violence that is a part of Holy Week and give thanks for the young people who are calling us to work together to end gun violence […]
Hard to Feel Spiritual…
God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 It’s hard to feel spiritual when…there’s a bug in your bra! This story was written in response to a […]
Enough Space
“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do […]
Sanderling on the Beach
And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God […]