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Rural Roots Going Through the Holy 2023 Going Deeper
Author note: written by Dr. Marvin Lee Anderson Rural Routes Through the Holy: Thrive Where You Are Rev. Dr. Catherine Smith, in her article Somewhere, United Church Rural Ministry Network, Fall#11, quotes the geographer Tim Cresswell: “Place, at a basic level, is space invested with meaning in the context of power.” Catherine asks: “Who defines power?…
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In the Stillness: A Silent Retreat
Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 3:00 pm – Saturday, October 2, 2021, 1:00 pm, in the beautiful natural setting of the Tatamagouche Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. “In order to understand the dance, one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. ” ~ Rumi ~
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Our Speechless Hearts
Intentional silence is not a retreat into some private piety. Nor is it passive. It is a rugged and sometimes ragged discipline of turning over and over again to offer our speechless hearts. Read the whole article here “The Doorway to Discipleship” by Catherine Smith, Mandate Spring 2020, The United Church of Canada, pp. 24–25,…
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Tech, Touch, and Thomas
“I’ll post a sermon on Thomas”, I said to my congregation – “a sermon from another time which moves in and out of the text in a more conventional way.” But for now there’s something else. Because Thomas’s is speaking clearly to me in this moment of a yearning that instructs us.
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Another one got away
My apologies for another one that got away. This was meant to be a static post for congregational use. Of course now that it’s out there anyone is welcome to share in the reflection on Love’s progress through our lives. The password is Palm Sunday. Let us know that even in this time when we…
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The One that Got Away
In these days of reaching toward one another online I am doing a lot of learning. One piece was how to share a link to worship for my congregation through Hem of the Light, without actually publishing widely. Alas, it got away from me and you will all have received it. Just to let you…
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One life, one life, one life . . .
In each bruising tragedy: missing and murdered indigenous women, the thirst for drinkable water, the displacement of the Rohingya, in those attacks in Edmonton and now, in Las Vegas, I pause to give names to people. I sink into my heart to make spaces in the crowd so it is no longer a crowd but countless…
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This is not Trump’s day
On this seemingly surreal but also real day when Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States, it is not more commentary or assessment, however well written, I need. Because how many words have we read, and listened to, and shared, that told us what many of us knew so early…
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