The sky is a clear, winter blue and the morning sunshine is streaming onto the frosty landscape, beginning to thaw the frozen ground. We were up before the sun this morning - not really my favorite thing to do. But since we’re hosting my husband’s family for the Thanksgiving meal today, we willingly [...]

This weekend my husband Josh was going through the paper and came across a Walmart Christmas catalog insert. It came with a ready-made wish list for kids and instructions on how to help your kids pick out all the stuff they want for Christmas. Josh had me laughing when he clutched the catalog, [...]

Last year’s panel of women leaders turned out to be rather a disaster. A panel of educated, intelligent, wise, and interesting women were given the privilege of asking a couple men some questions. ick. Brian McLaren was one of those men and he was insightful enough to recognize the problem and name it in [...]

“…like a bunch of middle aged guys trying to create a new line of feminine hygiene products.”
Richard Twiss
on certain voices in the postmodern conversation.

In her talk this morning, Diana Butler-Bass used her tinker toy model to describe the continuums of liberal-conservative, conventional-purposeful change, and modern-postmodern. Among other things she explained how people traditionally polarized on the liberal-conservative axis are finding a lot of common ground when they talk about how to respond to a changing world and how [...]

“The practice of Christianity, done well, is both dangerous and magnetic.”
Diana Butler-Bass
(who says she was once called the ‘devil’s whore’ by James Dobson. he he he)

“When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.”
Richard Twiss