Today’s RevGalBlogPals Friday Five writing prompt is all about technology. RevGalBlogPal Jan is in Washington state visiting relatives in a senior living facility where she will be without her usual electronic devices. Jan’s questions invite us to explore our use of, and desire for, technological devices: 1.  What types of technologies, like cell phones, computers,…

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…

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…

Adapted slightly from my church newsletter article archives of December 2010, wherein I offered the following modest proposal:   QUIT talking about putting the Christ back into Christmas! (please????) Yes, that’s coming from this pastor, duly ordained as a minister of the gospel, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and — before you ask…