Friday Five: Sneaky, Sneaky!

How did you sneak in here? Karla, Karla, Karla.  So, the deadline for putting up the Friday Five sneaked (snuck?) up on you. It’s not like you’ve been away on a serious (enough) study leave. And then there’s that blizzard that’s bearing down on you. With all of that, you have still managed to put…

My Serious (Enough) Continuing Education Week

I returned Saturday from RevGalBlogPals Big Event 6.0.  Rachel Hackenberg led us to to play — and play some more — with the Living Word “In Her [Our] Own Words.”  I came back refreshed and inspired and blessed beyond measure! Someone asked me to bring back a picture of me having fun on the trip.…

MLK Day 2013: The Joy of Celebrating

Some things haven’t changed As a teenager in Baton Rouge, LA — in the mid 1960‘s — our family was a little out of the church-going habit for awhile.  A friend kept trying to get me to go to her church.  She could talk very enthusiastically about Jesus and salvation and things like that.  My…

Sunday Sermon: Hope Shall Bloom

Hope Shall Bloom Luke 3:7-18; Zephaniah 3:14-20 For Central St. Matthew UCC, New Orleans, LA I confess: I had a hard time with this one. I had a sermon — it was about the hoops we jump through instead of living out hope — but then, 20 little children were killed in their school, along…