Tag: christmas

January 2nd, 2018

Roots and Wings

Okay, I ask myself, what do we – i.e. our church – do wrong? Before we continue working for renewal, maybe this is the critical question that we only think we’ve answered. On Christmas Eve, I took the secular side of my family to church. My daughter had been raised when I was in my…
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December 26th, 2017

December 26, Boxing Day: with a consolation prize we know all too well!

The idea behind “Boxing Day” hit me especially hard this year as I thought of us struggling to gain and keep women’s sacred and secular leadership in our Church. A bit of history about the day may strike you, too, with a certain uneasiness. According to Elaine Lemm writing on a website called The Spruce:…
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