I think we would all like to see the world become a better place.  We would like to look at the future with a sense of hope and optimism.  We would like to see ourselves as being one of the “good guys” and part of the solution – or at

I didn’t write this. Only once before have I posted someone else’s writing, but this was good. It is so good that it was hard for me to read, especially the first part. She is speaking to me and to my experience. It took me a long time to learn

The soul needs silence and stillness.  It is when we are doing nothing that our brains and souls do some of their most important somethings.  We can find these moments when we are doing a quiet little something or really and truly nothing at all. It is in the quiet

This is a continuation from the post about the word “sabbath” and sabbatical and is an extraction from an email we sent out earlier in the year. A pastors need for sabbatical is something that few people truly understand, which is why a second Hebrew word comes in really handy

The Bible is an incredibly diverse book with different literary genres, authors, perspectives, but there are common threads that hold it all together.  One of those threads that we see from the very beginning is the Hebrew word and concept of “Sabbath.” It is a word that means “stop,” “rest,”