Summer Blessings Bethlehem! As the world has continued to open up over the past several weeks I have found my response to it all to be very interesting. At certain times, I find that I can basically pretend that the past 15 months never happened, and slip right back into “business as usual” without so …
Thursday, April 22nd marked Earth Day. A day to give thanks for the world in which we live. A day to marvel at the beauty and complexity of nature – its resilience and fragility, its splendor and vastness. In the first chapter of Genesis, we hear of God’s labor pains in the creation of our …
Easter Blessings Dear People of Bethlehem, This will now be our second COVID-19 Holy Week. In many ways it feels very familiar, and in others it still feels incredibly foreign. After a year spent in the midst of the pandemic and lockdown and quarantine, we each arrive at this Easter with very different lived experiences. …
I love the rain. It brings back so many happy memories from my childhood, especially of when I was in high school. We used to play mud football, go mud sliding on the hill behind the high school, play mini golf on deserted, half-flooded courses. One memory in particular stands out among the rest. It …
Greetings Dear People of Bethlehem, It’s hard to believe that we are entering into the final month of what has proven to be a far more tumultuous year than anyone anticipated. For much of 2019, there was a joke circulating on the internet where someone would ask, “What do you think you’ll be doing this …