Needs: Lent 2025

Here we are again. Another Lent. Another wilderness wandering. Another start to reflecting on the world via my very sporadic writings. It seems Lent has been the time I feel most compelled to write. Perhaps because of the introspective nature of the season. Maybe it’s just the experience of taking the United Methodist Photo-A-Day challenge and turning […]

Place [1Word5Voices]

I’ve heard it said, and have even said myself,”Church isn’t a place, it’s the people.” This is true. However, this truth may leave us with a misunderstanding that place doesn’t matter, that the physical gathering spot for a community of faith is irrelevant. This is not true. The incarnation of Christ is certainly experienced in the […]

#BasicNeeds (a Rethink Church Lenten experiment)

Here we are again. Lent. Another wilderness, or is it the same one? Wandering and wondering. In 2013, I joined several friends for an interesting Rethink Church experiment…to blog through Lent. Rethink Church is at it again. Check out this year’s Lent experiment. Here’s how they describe it. “Every Sunday, we’ll post a theme that […]