Pastor’s Pen – March 16, 2014

A different kind of fasting… A friend of mine forwarded me the following excerpt from a blog called Abby of the Arts by Christine Valters. It is worth the reading. “I am called to fast from being strong and always trying to hold it all together, and instead...

Pastor’s Pen – March 9, 2014

It is hard to reconcile the images of the beginning of Lent and snow on the ground. Having traveled twice now to the Holy Land, and seen with my own eyes both the lush greens surrounding the sea of Galilee and the harsh, hot desert around Jericho – the site of Jesus’...