by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 18, 2022 | Faith Notes |
“The outer world is only an expression of an inner, spiritual world,” the theologian Eugene Peterson wrote in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. In other words, the violence and strife erupting around us are a produced by the violence and strife raging within us. If our spiritual world is broken, then our physical world will be as well.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 3, 2022 | Faith Notes |
The book of Job is likely the oldest recorded text in the Bible. It takes the form of a traditional three-act play. Whether it was written as a piece of performance art meant to reveal deeper truths about God, or whether it records an actual event, theologians disagree.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jun 11, 2021 | News |
Everywhere I look – on social media, television commercials, slogans printed on T-shirts and pasted on signs – the prevailing message today seems to be about achieving greatness, thinking big, striving for the maximum measure of success.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Nov 12, 2020 | News |
“You’re wearing two watches,” a student commented last week, noticing the brown leather bands wrapped securely around my wrist.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jul 8, 2020 | Faith Notes |
How we ended up housing twenty chickens in our kitchen began with a misunderstanding. When I ordered chicks, the local feed store said that twelve would arrive in early June with the rest coming a month later. While I wasn’t sure where we’d put them, at least we’d...