I announced in the Ministry Team meeting that my husband and I were going to Las Vegas to celebrate our anniversary. When most people think of Vegas – they think of gambling and all the other wild activities. I explained that my husband and I are national park type people, and our purpose was to…

When the deeds and tasks are done…All the signs of mistrust fall between the linesThrough the cracks where ash is ever turning, drifting, flowing into dust.I saw my heart.I sang my hopes.I learned that lust…If Is? for the birds.And, in the darkWhere secrets lurkI’ve come to learnThat speech can loom on useless words. Faith.The space…

Last year my husband Brian and I sat pondering what we should do to celebrate our June wedding anniversary. After quite a bit of hemming and hawing and none of the ideas really sounding that fun, we decided to take a 4-night canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA).  The last time we…

Happy Father’s Day! If you’re a father, or if you’d like to be some day, I hope as you read on that you are encouraged, spurred-on, or that some of you may even feel a little punch to the gut. Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are similar at their basic concept; they’re days in which…

Reaching. Healing. Renewing.  Who doesn’t want more of these verbs in their life?  That’s the heart and hope behind Ministry of Reconciliation and I can certainly attest to its life-giving characteristics.  Ministry of Reconciliation (MOR) was birthed out of Friendship Church and has since turned into a stand alone ministry just down the road from…