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Communion Meltdown?
“We’re at church and Maggie is having a meltdown. We just got a full page of single-spaced instructions on how to take communion here. She’s sure she’s gonna make a mistake and wreck everything.” I...
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Hungry for More Than Christmas Cookies
Today I was supposed to go to Weight Watchers. Instead I made Christmas cookies. And by that I mean I made Jeans Bars, so named because they’re guaranteed to make your jeans tight. Yeah. I know, I...
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Who’s in, Who’s out, and the Last 10%, part one
Awhile ago I was sitting around a table with a bunch of people with job titles, and advanced degrees, accomplishments out the wazoo, and years of valuable experience. And I felt like the outsider....
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Missing Church?
Mark Batterson recently tweeted: One of my driving motivations as a pastor is this – do people actually MISS church when they MISS church? A couple of weeks ago on Sunday I was away from home. We knew...
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That Wedding When I was Tempted to go all Norma Rae
A few weeks ago my husband John had to restrain me from totally losing it and making a scene at a wedding. I was FURIOUS. Fist-clenching, face-scrunching, steam coming out my ears furious. “Why?”,...
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Awkward Encounters of the Communion Kind
Sunday John and I preached together. And then I served communion. We were supposed to serve it together, but he was sick, and in addition to squirting Purell on his (and my) hands every other minute,...
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Is it Possible to Fail at Communion?
It’s Memorial Day and I’ve been missing my girls! Here’s a post from a few years ago when Maggie was single and she and Katy were living together in D.C. “We’re at church and Maggie is having a...
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When You Need More Than Christmas Cookies
The other day I made Christmas cookies. And by that I mean I made Jeans Bars, so named because they’re guaranteed to make your jeans tight. Yeah. I know, I know… Danger Will Robinson! But, it got me...
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