Hi. My name is Andrea Lingle. For many of you, you know me as the name near the top of these emails. Others of you may know me as the woman who teaches writing-as-a-spiritual-practice with her eyes closed. I am not bragging about the ease with which I teach. I find myself talking to you all with my eyes closed. Why? I don't know. Y'all aren't that scary.
Read MoreGod who created the sun that gives us light and the plants who turn that light into energy, we give you thanks! Incarnate God who came to table, we give you thanks! Holy Spirit who fills us with wonder, we give you thanks!
Amen.
Son of God who sat and told stories, Creator God who filled the stones with tales of mystery, Spirit of God who inhabits our stories, be they tales of joy or sorrow, grant us the courage to tell the truth—our truth.
Amen.
Spirit of God, who hovered over the chaos of the waters, meet us in the chaos of movement. Meet us on the way.
Read MoreIt’s hard to be a non-profit that focuses on building community during a pandemic. We have been forced to contract, losing wonderful folks whom we love very much.
Read MoreOn the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him.
Read MoreFor he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Psalm 95:1–7a
Read MoreThe man sat by the entrance of his home. His skin was loose and brown, weathered by the steadily accumulating years. The moments of his life stretched around him like a spreading pool of rich green olive oil on a table top.
Read MoreWisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
Read MoreI am a native North Carolinian and, though I am not as old as the saying is, I remember North Carolina’s logo, “Variety Vacationland.”
Read MoreI have spent a majority of my adult life in a fifteen passenger van going from state to state playing country music. I would not trade one thing for my years on the road, nor the hundreds of thousands of miles I drove in that time.
Read MoreThe context I am serving in is a long-standing Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church that is in the midst of a lot of transition.
Read MoreLong ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.
Read MoreSince 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.
Read MoreMost people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.
Read MoreA lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”
Read More“When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.”
Read More“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”
Read MoreBut Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
John 20:24–25
Read MoreMary turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?”
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