Self-Transcendence: The Forgotten Stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. http://bit.ly/2frxoxe Trees Recognize Roe Deer by Saliva http://bit.ly/2efSjpv About Time: MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller wants to make people smarter http://bit.ly/2dHrho8 When...
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson –Review by Paula Jones I am a product of the Deep South where I’ve learned that insanity is sometimes heat-induced, that “Bless your heart,” can be both a prayer and an insult, that the worst thing...
Lions and Lambs, Republicans and Democrats….Christians Lectionary 13 November 2016 26th Sunday After Pentecost Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 12 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 Text to Life It goes without saying . . . You never resemble Jesus more than when you have your...
The coming week’s lectionary focuses on two particular passages from Isaiah. For this week’s writing, I went looking for musical settings of those scripture passages. What I found was, as is often the case, the adjacent possible: the connected, but distinct, random...
The Infiltrator Story Lectionary 13 November 2016 The Role of the Priests and the Prophet Among You (Deuteronomy 18) David Son of Jesse, a Herder of Sheep, is Chosen to be King by God Through the Prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 16) The Unpopular Prophet Who Speaks God’s...
