by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 3, 2022 | Faith Notes |
It happened again this week. I glimpsed my reflection in the mirror – silvering hair braided down my back, creased eyes rimmed by glasses – and thought, I look like my mother. I sound like my mother too. One night, chatting with my daughter, who was visiting from college, I mentioned an article I’d read about the eruption of an Indonesian volcano in the early 1800s.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 17, 2021 | News |
Five years ago I eagerly shared with readers that internationally known Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was speaking in Bangor. The event, Why Jesus?, sold out, packing the Cross Insurance Center with 6,755 people. Among them were a load of high school students I’d wrangled onto a bus.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 11, 2021 | News |
We’ve all missed a lot this past year, but one thing I’ve missed the most is gathering together for worship. While it isn’t always possible to get together in person, I’d like to celebrate Lent by looking at Jesus through this eyes of one of...
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 18, 2020 | Faith Notes |
Mercy – the one word I find myself repeatedly praying this week. Lord, have mercy. Have mercy on our medical workers and migrants and people living in refugee resettlement camps. Have mercy on the poorest of the poor who live without doctors in the developing world. Have mercy on our government officials and grocery store clerks and farmers and elderly and frail. Lord, have mercy on us.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 3, 2019 | Faith Notes |
It isn’t hard to find something to be unhappy about these days. The melting ice caps. Racial and economic injustice. The high cost of education and medical care. The opioid epidemic. I suppose Lent is as good a season as any to be miserable as we recognize the grievous condition of the human heart and of the harm our actions have wrought on humanity.