by Lynda Hart | Jun 16, 2025
We are designed by God, I believe, to discover him first through our parents. As infants, our parents represent our physical, emotional, and spiritual universe, reflecting onto us our earliest perceptions and images—how safe is my world? What is trust and truth,...
by Lynda Hart | Jun 9, 2025
For Christians, Pentecost is a holiday on which we commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the early followers of Jesus. Before the events of the first Pentecost, which came a few weeks after Jesus’ death and resurrection, there were followers of Jesus, but no...
by Lynda Hart | Jun 2, 2025
Jesus’ Ascension may not seem as big of a deal as the Resurrection, or as rousing as the image of Jesus on the cross. Moreover, though we might be loath to admit it, after Good Friday and Easter, in fact, the Ascension might even seem somewhat anti-climactic. Still,...
by Lynda Hart | May 27, 2025
The message of Memorial Day is one of sacrifice. On this day, we honor those who—throughout the history of our nation—paid the ultimate price to secure and defend our freedom. These were fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, who said goodbye to their families,...
by Lynda Hart | May 19, 2025
This verse from the Gospel of John is one that has been resonating in my brain since Maundy Thursday, though I’m not entirely sure why. I mean, is it just me, or is the idea of being commanded to love strike you as odd, perhaps even somewhat off-pitting. It...
by Lynda Hart | May 12, 2025
It seems that God has far less of a problem being referred to in the feminine than we have with referring to God as such. We don’t talk about God as woman or mother, and I suspect that it’s largely because Jesus always spoke of God as Father. Unfortunately, nowadays,...
