A home for Bible Geekery
A home for Bible Geekery
Mary Fisher was an illiterate, uneducated 17th century English indentured servant when she heard George Fox preach. As a dedicated Quaker, she called out her pastor, challenged students at a seminary, and risked her life to preach in America.
A pastor who was so excited about retiring and doing nothing ended up creating a difficulty-with-retiring support group for the presbytery.
Prayer according to Emo Philips – ask for it in prayer, steal it, then you have it.
Imagining what it was like walking through the Red Sea for kids and elders, the cynical and the faithful.
Teresa of Ávila teaches us about prayer by using the metaphor of watering a garden.
A saint is fed by a magic fish, but when the king’s cook tries to steal it, the fish suffers.
Barbara E. Joe dreamed of joining the Peace Corps, but raising kids and facing tragedy kept her from going. Nevertheless, she joined when she was 62.
Six different denominations vie for space at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – sometimes with violence.
We burden one another we shame each day. Shame makes us feel unworthy and rejected. Love welcomes us home in God’s embrace.
Facing the horrors of the Nazi regime, members of the White Rose asked why and they acted. Asking why strengthens our faith for action.