There are so many losses in the current season. Some of those losses will be recouped in some fashion. Some of those losses will never be recovered. Grief is the expression of emotion when a loss has been acknowledged. When the loss is not acknowledged, and grief is not expressed, grief lies waiting. It will …
Mockingbird have published this reflection by Trevor Almy, who has gone through seasons of intense chronic depression and who sees similarities in the way people are experiencing and reacting to the time of pandemic we are going through and his own reactions during depression. This is not proscriptive and neither makes light of chronic depression …
This post from Laura Cerbus plays around with thoughts that are floating through my mind and that I can’t nail down. If the current pandemic had occurred even fifteen years ago the current responses to it would be impossible. If I hear another pastoral leader communicating about how they’re making productive use of this ‘opportunity’ …
Perhaps you’ve heard the old joke about the minister who was giving a children’s talk in church one Sunday on the subject being prepared and decided to use squirrels as an example. He started out by saying, “I’m going to describe something, and I want you to raise your hand when you know what it …
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