Towson, MD
July 5, 2020
Having a half-acre of land has brought Eric and I a deep sense of freedom. When we haven’t been working, we’ve headed up to the house to watch the many kinds of bees collecting pollen and nectar from our back field of clover, while contractors work on various home repairs. Our home’s previous owner didn’t […]
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June 28, 2020
One of the most sacred song’s I’ve ever experienced in my life is by Aretha Franklin. It was my first year of Seminary, my first Easter away from the Presbyterian congregation that raised me, back in Tualatin, Oregon. My friends Andy Greenhow and Laura Colee and I piled into a car, and drove the […]
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June 14, 2020
If gardening wasn’t teaching me enough humility, this week Eric and I bought a house in the country, North of Loch Raven Reservoir. In the coming weeks and years, home maintenance projects and caring for a yard will no doubt provide me plenty of opportunities to realize just how much I don’t know. I […]
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June 7, 2020
Amos 5 I have to confess, I had no idea where to start this week when I sat down to write a sermon. Everything in the country feels too heavy to hold. The news, my social media feeds, and conversations with friends have added up to a week of particular grief and anger that […]
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May 31, 2020
When we gather virtually each week, my favorite part of the service is the prayers of the people. I love reading your Facebook comment prayers, watching my phone lighting up with texts, asking Eric to open the phone lines, all these ways of hearing from you. It is a gift each week to lift […]
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May 17, 2020
One of the gifts of being new to gardening, is being given ample opportunities to learn just how much I don’t know. From learning about plants native to Maryland, to the soil conditions for carrots, to how to get tomatoes to produce a summer of deliciousness, I am constantly having to learn from Google, […]
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May 10, 2020
I wasn’t going to make the ferry from Mull to the Mainland of Scotland in time to make my train. I was 20, studying abroad, and had just visited Iona for the first time, and I was new to train timetables. I grabbed a cup of tea in the little town of Fionnphort, waiting […]
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May 3, 2020
These past few weeks I have been thinking a lot about water. I’ve noticed the silence that comes just before a rainstorm, and then the cacophony of birdsong I hear right afterwards. I’ve heard the rush of water over the dam near our house and watched as it pours over the wall and into tanks […]
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April 26, 2020
2020 has been my year of the Asparagus. I grew up loving asparagus, grilled in our backyard, with dill and lemon. As a kid, I never really thought about where it came from, beyond the store shelf. But then, in the summer of 2009 I boarded a plane to volunteer at the Asian Rural Institute in Tochigi, Japan. ARI is a farming training center run through the Methodist Church. Rural leaders from the global south come…
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April 19, 2020
My favorite theologians and spiritual guides are artists. I love to read theologians, James Cone, Karl Barth, Moltman, Liberationists and Womanist voices. I’m a Biblical Studies nerd, even this week participating in a virtual lecture from one of my undergraduate professors about Papyri preserved in Egypt that give us insight into Jewish self-understanding for […]
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