by theRevCK | Mar 7, 2023 | Reflection, Well...
When it comes to affirmations as a useful tool for healthy mind, body, and spirit, I am a decidedly late bloomer. In fact, I remember attending a leadership workshop in my late 20s where the leader suggested to a room full of clergy that we begin each work day with...
by theRevCK | Jul 31, 2022 | Current Events & Culture
My friend choked on the words as she leaned in to repeat them across appetizer plates and pint glasses dripping with condensation. “Eww. Why do you have a mustache?” Hamburger Mary’s had been loud with music and our laughter a moment ago, but I saw my friend’s...
by theRevCK | Jun 3, 2022 | Reflection
Packing up my office a month ago, I came across this pencil sketch one awesomely talented parishioner drew and gifted me last year. This is me. Or, this is me as someone else saw me 17 years into a calling and career as a spiritual leader of congregations. Seventeen...
by theRevCK | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Congrats to Sam, Thomas, Rachel, Jill, and Jose who won our Advent giveaway on Goodreads! I’ll be dropping your copy of Loving What Doesn’t Last in the mail soon. Looking forward to hearing your reflections as you read.
by theRevCK | Sep 30, 2021 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection, Well...
I have unofficially studied the body my entire life: from childhood observations of my mother’s midwife visits to rural Amish and Mennonite families to a youthful fascination with the surgical nursing magazines that arrived at our home. Half of my family works mending...
by theRevCK | May 30, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
Consider this a big hairy asterisk and caveat to my previous love note to the hallowed 4th Estate. The media have never done black people any favors. Reading James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree earlier this year, the journalist in me cringed as Cone...
by theRevCK | Apr 11, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection
The first time I got laid off, I ran to a bathroom to cry. I am quoted in a trade magazine sniveling something about, “but I really thought we were doing good work, producing something valuable.” (For the record, the image of me crying in the ladies room was exactly...
by theRevCK | Mar 28, 2020 | Current Events & Culture, Reflection, Well...
It’s impossible – in the middle of a pandemic – not to notice how often the sacred texts of my religion reference healing. In the stories and psalms of my prayers these past few weeks, I can’t avoid words of healing: One psalm sings of the One who “heals all our...
by theRevCK | Dec 18, 2019 | Love and Life, Reflection
Winter Wonderland and Happy Place Late November every year, the hunt is on for that box in garage, basement or attic, that holds the music of the season. (Dating myself here, but most of mine is on CD.) My mother did this, too. In my vivid childhood memory, the...
by theRevCK | Oct 29, 2019 | Love and Life, Reflection
October and November bring, for a number of our spiritual and cultural traditions, rituals to remember the dead. Not all of our relationships are with the living alone. Our ancestors shape us. Our loved ones live on in us. They shape our present and our future ? for...
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