Hope: A User's Manual

ISBC 39 - Hope as Protest

Chapter 39 of Hope: A User's Manual....These actions are sowing seeds. My job is to sow the seeds, whether it is in my ministry role as a pastor or when…

Aug 16, 2024 •

ISBC 38 - The Practice of Pulling Up Anchor

Chapter 38 of Hope: A User's Manual...It is hard to pull up anchor, especially when we have invested so much into something. Into a relationship. A…

Aug 14, 2024 •

ISBC 37 - The Practice of Writing Fiction

Chapter 37 of Hope: A User's Manual - the reflection in which Scout shows up wearing shark-themed pajamas...

Aug 12, 2024 •

ISBC 36 - The Practice of the Big Three

Chapter 36 of Hope: A User's Manual...It is a choice to believe. It is a choice to love. It is a choice to imagine. It is a choice to think twice. It is…

Aug 10, 2024 •

ISBC 35 - The Practice of Doing it Yourself

Chapter 35 of Hope: A User's Manual...Teresa of Avila nuances this point even further: Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but…

Aug 8, 2024 •

ISBC 34 - The Practice of Going Back to Basics

Chapter 34 of Hope: A User's Manual....What if we thought of our lives like one of these beautiful thermometers? What rises to the top?

Aug 6, 2024 •

ISBC 33 - The Practice of Surviving the Winter

Chapter 33 of Hope: A User's Manual...sunrises speak to hope for me. Sometimes, the beauty of a sunrise is absolutely obvious. But others require work…

Aug 4, 2024 •

ISBC 27 - Proximate Purpose

Chapter 27 of Hope: A User's Manual...I was thinking to myself, “this is going to be perfect!” I was so excited as we drove. We pulled in and I realized…

Jul 23, 2024 •

ISBC 24 - Something to Live For

Chapter 24 of Hope: A User's Manual.... Harold Crick lived...

Jul 17, 2024 •

ISBC 21 - Trauma = Pain + Confusion

Chapter 21 of Hope: A User's Manual - ... I find hope in that there’s more to understand, more to experience, more to see, more to learn. There is more…

Jul 11, 2024 •

ISBC 17 - Right of Repair

Chapter 17 of Hope A User's Manual - I’ve shared more than a few times that my title at the congregation I serve could be pastor / tech support…

Jul 3, 2024 •

ISBC 16 - To Comfort and to Care

Chapter 16 of Hope: A User's Manual... I got this scar on the base of my right thumb about eight years ago in the office of the previous congregation I…

Jul 1, 2024 •

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