Sometimes this thing my Methodist friends lovingly call “the discernment process” is a rollercoaster ride. At least it is for me. There are the high points, like marrying my friends on Saturday. In moments like that, filled with beauty and love, I think I could be a minister. Then I started my class on premarital counseling. When I signed up …
The Practice of Feeling Pain
Pain is clarifying. When in real physical pain one’s interest in other things is superseded by the NOW of moving through acute bodily distress. In this state there is not much energy left to attend to relational complexities or remember the books yet read, or work yet done. This week I was struck by an infection that morphed into a …
Benefit Concert for Heifer International
The Kessler Presents: Trinity River Folk w/ Chasing the Muse June 15, 2011 doing all acoustic sets. Proceeds go to benefit Heifer International
Sustainably Grown Soul Food
This Sunday Church in the Cliff will be worshipping on a football field turned organic farm: Paul Quinn College’s Food for Good Urban Farm. Now this may be a rookie mistake on my part — the moving of our eleven oclock worship service to a new venue. Have you ever been to a church that relocated their main gathering just to …
Church on the Farm– this Sunday
Sunday June 5 Church in the Cliff is taking our show on the road. We will be gathering at a football field turned organic farm: Paul Quinn College’s Food for Good Urban Farm. 10am tour and weed pick. 11am service. wear a hat and sun protective clothing and join us!
Why Bless a Bike?
Because Emma rides farther and farther each day and Sara, like other mothers of tweenagers, watches her go with love and a desire for protection surging in her heart. Because Richie and Brandon and others ride their bike to work most days, turning the daily commute into a courageous act when one lives in a city without many bike lanes. …
Being Church for Iris
I am not normally one to receive Divine messages at night—as if spoken to me, audibly, in my mother tongue. But one night early last spring God talked to me. And this is what She said: “Be Chloe’s Church.” I had been sitting with my desires for a youth group. Remembering the life changing experiences I had as a …
Ancestral Brew
We carry the body wisdom of seven generations in our feet. Katy, a new friend and yoga teacher, taught me this in a class this week. I’m not sure I totally understood it, but it strikes me as true. Our feet are the parts of our bodies that connect us to the earth and to our ancestors. On Saturday our …
Urban Farm Picnic this Wednesday, May 11
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Rescheduled for May 25 Wednesday Night Community Gathering 6-8pm picnic and weed pick at Paul Quinn College’s Food for Good Farm (join us for a tour of this Football Field turned Urban Farm!) 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd Dallas, TX 75241
Not your mother’s “Mother’s Day”
Most reflections on motherhood strike me as sacchariny, inconsequential, and over boiled. There is a long history of talking about women in the role of mother in an oversimplified way—so as to suggest that all women should seek fulfillment in their God-given role as the Goddess of the Hearth. What it boils down to is a kind of sexist trope— …