by admin | Nov 17, 2022 | community, COVID-19, events, holidays
The holiday season is upon us. A time for cheer, celebration, gratitude, joy, and enjoying the company of those whom we love. However, the holidays also bring sadness, mourning, pain, and challenge. For one, even with significant progress in addressing the pandemic...
by admin | Nov 3, 2022 | community, COVID-19, faith
Our Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. ~...
by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | COVID-19
This week an AZ Disciples clergy colleague, Job Cobos, wrote a reflection on “solitary spirituality”. He focused on the pandemic’s effect on our spiritual lives and our need in these two years to pray and connect with God in solitude. Absent our customary gatherings...
by admin | Sep 16, 2021 | COVID-19
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. ~ William Stafford Sooner or later, everything falls away. You, the work you’ve done, your successes, large and small, your failures, too. Those moments when you were light, along-...
by admin | Jun 17, 2021 | COVID-19, mental wellness, ministry team
To begin to talk about resilience, Hilda Seidman writes that we “do need to talk about grief and mourning. Grief is the organic process that begins when we experience the acute pain of loss. It is our psyche’s way—its medicine— to deal with the pain. Mourning is...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | COVID-19
by John Indermark Not long after I had pre-enrolled in seminary, my pastor gave an essay to me written by one of the Niebuhr brothers. The paper explored the theme of freedom and responsibility, and Pastor Pollmann asked me to present a series of short presentations...
