Posts with the category “unfold”

The first Sunday of Advent is about hope. Writer and spiritual director Kathy Escobar says “hope requires risk and sacrifice. Working against our reflexes to run, hide, self-protect, and self-medicate...  Read More

As we turn to Chapter 7 in our series titled “Unfold: A Year of Discovering Story,” we move from Cosmic Wisdom to Radical....  Read More

Often people struggle to articulate the difference between knowledge and wisdom, much less cosmic wisdom. You’ve probably heard the age-old saying, “Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom knows when...  Read More

“What you have told us is rubbish. The world is a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’r...  Read More

“What you have told us is rubbish. The world is a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’r...  Read More

Chapter 3 of our Unfold series kicked off with Easter. Similarly, Chapter 4 kicked off with Ascension Sunday, a lesser-known yet also important church holiday in and of itself. What do we “celebrate” ...  Read More

Divine love continues to surround us. I believe this, and sometimes it is all I can do to believe it. Be reminded the word “believe” in the New Testament can just as easily be translated as “trust.” I...  Read More

Rebecca Garrett Pace--SUPER-DUPER NERDY POST COMMENCING IN T-MINUS 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…There is a genre in sci-fi fantasy called Grimdark, in which, to put it simply, everything is horrible, and we’re all d...  Read More

Chapter 2 of our series Unfold: A Year of Discovering Story, is titled “We Are Who We Are.” In Chapter 1 we focused on the character and nature of God. The title “I Am Who I Am” comes from God’s self ...  Read More

Rebecca Garrett Pace--PAUL TO THE ATHENIANS SPOKE BABBLETHIS NEWS OF A GOD UNKNOWNNOW GOD IS LOVE MOST PERSONALPilate to Jesus spoke riddleWhat is truth?Now God is Truth most knowableComposers ancient...  Read More

Rev. Phil Dieke--Having finished two weeks in the Prologue, setting the stage by discussing the power of story, we now move into Chapter 1. And what better place to begin than with God? God.Could ther...  Read More

Rev. Phil Dieke--In our family, we often play a game we call “Top Five/Bottom Five.” I have no idea if this is a real game, or if my husband and stepkids invented it, but it’s one of those conversatio...  Read More

Rev. Phil Dieke--How many times have you shared a similar exchange not particularly thinking about your response, much less sharing how you really are doing? Countless times, I’m sure. When I was in c...  Read More