Category: The Magazine

Anywho…the thing about the 12 days of Christmas is that they are perfect for finishing up the 2017 campaign collections and gearing up for the Fall 2018 campaign.  No.  Seriously. 

Parenting changes our standards for what we need to get done, and how we are going to do it. Would we say that it changed God?

Then, in all his eccentricity, in all his strange dress and inflammatory words, John the Baptist actually gives the right answer to his disciples. He says, quite clearly, “I am not the one. I am not the Messiah.” His words should be a constant reminder for anyone these days, for anyone who receives adulation and attention from people.

Advent is not a time in which we find God.  Advent is a time in which we stretch, awaken and realize that, regardless of the “hell” it feels we are in, “heaven” is and will always be all around us, conspiring towards our joy and making darkness not dark.

now is the time to begin to plan for the effective use of that silent “middle time” between the demands of Christmas and the demands of Easter.  Now is the time to plan to plan.

Humility is the power of connection.  Then, once humility has been exercised with some real, meaningful, tangible, evident action of a way of being; then, and only then, can one connect. 

It may be non-essential to the core of our faith, but we still need to care about the people who are invested in the issue. How do we do we declare adiaphora with sensitivity?

We wondered what Christmas would be like this year if we each gave experiences and not just gifts this year.

People who give their money away are making meaning.  Clergy, bishops and lay leaders who help people to give their money away to things THEY (the donor) love, are helping them (the donors) to live a beautiful life of meaning-making.  It is gorgeous ministry.