This Lent, I’ve been preoccupied with dark subjects. I’ve written about people who don’t have enough to eat, about pernicious ingrown racist attitudes and about innocent Asylum Seekers thrown in…
“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” As a Blue State liberal, I was never a big flag waver. In fact it made me a little uneasy to…
Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates while in Curacao on vacation is a mind-blowing experience. His book, Between the World and Me, challenged me to rethink my responsibility for the troubled state of race…
“Food is the most powerful tool we have. We should embrace and acknowledge that when we try to solve social problems.” Anne Mernin, Executive Director, Toni’s Kitchen Food gets a…
“When temptation knocks this day for you, I hope you’ll listen…” —Reverend Dr. Brad Motta I never know what is going to come out of Pastor Brad’s mouth and I…
It’s that time of year again when the Modern Church Lady takes time to reboot and refresh: Last year, my Lenten series “Marie Kondo Does Lent” explored how stripping away…
This is the 7th and last post in the Marie Kondo Does Lent Series The 40 days of Lent are over, Good Friday has come and gone. But Easter stays…
2017 Update One of my favorite Lenten posts from my 2016 series was “going with the magic.” In it I recount how viewing my streamlined collection of books was like…
2017 Update During the 2016 Lent season, I learned the symbolic power of self-deprivation from a Syrian man I became acquainted with through my church. This is the 5th post…
2017 Update During Lent 2016, I embraced Marie Kondo’s “too much to enjoy,” concept. In my 2016 Lent IV post, I write how I was able to extend this…
