Being Christ in Our Lives: Meredith Gould

They don’t come much funnier, more opinionated, or more ecumenical than my friend Meredith Gould. You may know Meredith for her expertise in church communications, as witnessed by her books The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways and The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today. Meredith was raised Jewish, spent… Continue reading Being Christ in Our Lives: Meredith Gould

On the Nightstand: November

Earlier this year, a work colleague gave me a signed copy of Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter, a how-to book of sorts co-authored by the Rev. Michael White, pastor of my friend’s suburban Baltimore parish. I’m finally getting to the book now as my church’s Pastoral Council is reading it… Continue reading On the Nightstand: November

Being Christ in Our Lives: Anna LaNave

Anna LaNave was wearing a green-and-white-striped shirt and a radiant smile when I met her in 2005. She was in charge of a ministry called Landings at the parish I’d tiptoed into as someone away from the Church for decades. Anna and Landings gave me a safe place to ask questions about God… and to come back… Continue reading Being Christ in Our Lives: Anna LaNave

On the Nightstand: October

Preparing for the prayer retreat I facilitated last month meant I got to read a  lot of great books, including Jon M. Sweeney’s Praying with Our Hands: 21 Practices of  Embodied Prayers from the World’s Spiritual Traditions. The  images of prayer–with our hands, in dance, at altars–are stunning. The text is  thought provoking. Here’s an… Continue reading On the Nightstand: October