A new pie crust recipe, easier than the first
This last August was the sixth anniversary of this blog. That milestone went by in a haze of work and travel.My baking has also suffered somewhat with the new job, but not completely. I still like to...
View ArticleIs It Dangerous to Let Teenagers Read Thomas Kelly?
On Sunday, there wasn’t a First Day School program at our Quaker meeting, so our boys were going to be with us all through meeting for worship. I pulled out the two little books that were in my purse...
View ArticleWisdom for 2012
Since the mid 90's I’ve tried to choose one word for the year: whatever virtue or practice I felt I needed to work on. One year it was “patience;” one year it was "breathe," another year it was...
View ArticleVision
Without vision, the people perish. Mostly because they get eaten by tigers they didn't see coming.Isn't that a joke from Calvin & Hobbes?I've been thinking a lot about vision lately. Mostly because...
View ArticleAgeless Grace
Last weekend I attended a symposium called “Ageless Grace: Women in Leadership in the Church and in the World” at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. There were two main...
View ArticleWhy don't you write more?
A couple of weeks ago, a Friend suggested that I should write a blogpost (100-1000 words usually) expanding on a tweet (140 characters) that I wrote. I said I'd like to write more, but this darn...
View ArticleYou Can't Have It All
Psalm 90 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,...
View ArticleThis week in 2005...
This week marks the seventh anniversary of this blog. It started with a post entitled Perhaps, about how I was mistaken when I said that I would never write a blog, followed by some reflections on my...
View ArticleLeadership in the Age of Social Media
A couple weeks ago I spoke on a panel about Quaker leadership in the age of social media at the Earlham School of ReligionLeadership Conference.My main point was that the more things change, the more...
View ArticleBivocational Ministry
So have you heard the term "bivocational ministry" before? If you have, there's a good chance that you've been to seminary, or known someone who did, or thought about going, or taught at one, some time...
View ArticleMy Journey in and out of Ministry
So the 100,000th visit to this blog came and went. It's not a precise measurement; the counter wasn't even set up for the first couple of months, and who knows how accurate it really is. But like...
View ArticleAttending Community Meeting for Worship, 2003
Yesterday in worship, I was strongly reminded of an experience in worship at my son's school from a few years ago. Tonight, I found an article that I actually wrote about the experience at the time. I...
View ArticleNecessary but Not Sufficient
I went to a Quaker Revival the other night. Organized by a small group of Christian Friends in the Eastern U.S. and held in West Philadelphia. It fit my idea of a good time.First, a potluck supper with...
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The Tools We Need
It is not a new statement that among Friends, we are all ministers. We have different gifts and experiences, but we all have some. And we can all use some basic tools in our ministry. But we don’t all...
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Dirt and the Good Life
Dirt and the Good Life: Stories from Fern Creekby Lisa Graham McMinn and Mark R. McMinn Published in 2012 by Barclay Press,cover design by Darryl Brown This is a collection of short essays about the...
View ArticleWhat I'm Reading Now: January 2013
I used to writetheseprettyregularly, but it's been a long time now. I mostly compile this list by walking around the house and writing down the names of the books I've left sitting around. It's not...
View ArticleConflicting Concerns
As I have said before, my paid work for Quakers at the very broad level and my responsibilities to my family at home are more than enough to fill my every waking minute. I already feel like I’m not...
View ArticleFWCC from A to Z
I've been entertaining myself today with a single handed game of "I'm going to Grandma's house and I'm taking a..." Did you play that when you were a kid? Or with your own kids?Well, I'm going to the...
View ArticleWho's gonna fill their shoes?
George Jones died this last week. Many country music singers said George was the one they admired most. But back in the early 1980s he wrote a song about all the singers he looked up to, called "Who's...
View ArticleMy Hopes for First Day School
My new meeting is having one of those recurring conversations about what do we want from First Day School? (FDS = our children's religious education program). I was not able to go to the first meeting...
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