Hope Moderna joined Pfizer yesterday in announcing the development of an effective COVID19 vaccine. Trials indicate the Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective, is delivered in one shot (not 2) and does require extreme cold storage, as does the Pfizer vaccine. Phrases like “light at the end of tunnel” and “hope rising” were common in […]
What Conversations Do You Remember Forever? Do you remember the last conversation you had with someone? Do you remember the conversation in the midst of a shared dramatic/stressful experience? What do you remember about specific conversations and what specific conversations do you remember? What conversations do other people remember having with you? I don’t remember […]
Some Headlines of the Day SpaceX Launched a flight to the International Space Station carrying four astronauts. Think of it as a very expensive taxi ferrying NASA astronauts to work. Private companies now do what only nation states used to be able of doing… Hurricane Iota It’s expected to make landfall tonight and is a […]
Life and Death Conversations I’ve received three evites to Zoom funerals in the past week. My first Zoom funeral experience… real, oddly intimate Slate Magazine elaborates on a zoom funeral in this article: Praise of Zoom Funeral. Covid Changes We have stopped doing things in COVID and we have started doing things differently in COVID […]
Dual Citizenship Let’s continue to cultivate our understanding of ourselves as dual citizens: first allegiance to the Kingdom of Heaven and secondarily to the particular nation state or kingdom of this world into which we were born, or to which we were naturalized through a process. Paul reminds us in Philippians 3:20 that our […]
Dual Citizenship We’ve been talking this week about Christians and the dual nature of our citizenship. We are, indeed, citizens of the household of God, co-heirs with Christ of the Kingdom of Heaven. This world is not our home-Home. We’re on our way, even now to the Father’s House – but in the same way […]
The Pope’s Prayer In Pope Francis’ weekly general audience, he vowed to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. His pledge came after the Vatican released its detailed report into the decades long church cover-up of McCarrick’s sexual misconduct. Francis concluded his weekly general audience […]
Here are some resources we have compiled for those currently experiencing sexual abuse or who have experienced sexual abuse. They are also useful resources and tools for people who know someone who is/was abused or wants to educate themselves on sexual abuse. So, let us be praying for all of whom we’ve mentioned and be […]
Citizens of the Kingdom We started a conversation yesterday about what the Bible has to say about citizenship. In the page from the first hour today, we used the Lord’s prayer as a springboard for remembering who we are in Christ. Let’s continue to meditate on our citizenship by reading a portion of the Book […]
A Prayer For the Kingdom Jesus taught us how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13. He began: “Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Christians, we are a part of this present and coming kingdom of our Father! Let us remember who we […]