By Lynne M. Baab — Stress is ramping up. I use the term “new/old” to describe the stress people today deal with. “Old” sources of stress include all sorts of…
By Jeannie Kendall — When, I wonder, did the church lose its recognition that we are all imperfect and broken? Again and again we hear the comment from people that…
by Christine Sine It is blackberry picking season here in the Pacific NW and last week Mustard Seed House community members Dan and Lisa De Rosa went blackberry picking around…
By Ana Lisa De Jong — THE LAND We fight over the land. We claim it through greed, or the patterns of decades, and the entitlement of our father’s, whose…
By Sean Gladding — From time to time I write about what my garden is teaching me about life. Paying attention to the plants, insects, birds and soil with which…
By Lynne M. Baab — In my first post in this series, I described a community dinner and a prayer support group as examples of patterns of Christian caring that are now…
By Rodney Marsh — Life itself is imperfect. Always. Imperfect – my life, your life, our life together. Always. However imperfection is a sign of coming perfection. No imperfection –…