By Christine Valters Paintner Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow…
The Lectionary Gospel reading for American Thanksgiving Day is Matthew 6:25-33. It’s a passage that’s very familiar to those of us who live with anxiety and deal with fear. And…
By Lilly Lewin Just a couple of weeks away from Thanksgiving here in the States and I wanted to introduce you to a few ideas you might try around your…
by Christine Sine I have a confession to make. Tom and I are addicted to Grand Designs, an intriguing British reality show in which each episode documents a unique home-build or…
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 Christine Sine I was recently asked to write the forward for a book of poems by Godspace author Jenneth Graser. I have never met Jenneth Grazer. I live half…
by Christine Sine Today I am grieving. The impact of yet another shooting. The pain of the vulnerable children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. Mexico…
by Christine Sine The crisis at the border is the latest addition to a long list of instances when white people have chosen silence over what is right. Most of…
This morning part of my scripture reading was Psalm 121 which , in The Voice translation I am currently using reads: I look up at the vast size of the…
