Laura Norvell
@lmnorvell.bsky.social
Pastor Partner Parent Cook Writer Dreamer
Serving The United Methodist Church in Maryland
Serving The United Methodist Church in Maryland
He makes the best noise.
March 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
He makes the best noise.
The wall is real. Good for you getting away!!
February 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The wall is real. Good for you getting away!!
But in the people who bear those stories, we meet the beloved community that both prefigures and prepares us for the country we’ve not yet been. The other half of history is an invitation to live into another story. ⬇️
February 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
But in the people who bear those stories, we meet the beloved community that both prefigures and prepares us for the country we’ve not yet been. The other half of history is an invitation to live into another story. ⬇️
As pilgrims in a strange land, we leave our people and place for a country as yet unknown in order to see and name the holy ground beneath our feet. This cannot be a solitary journey because it entails the sharing of very different and often painful stories. ⬇️
February 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
As pilgrims in a strange land, we leave our people and place for a country as yet unknown in order to see and name the holy ground beneath our feet. This cannot be a solitary journey because it entails the sharing of very different and often painful stories. ⬇️
We cannot heal or honestly examine what we do not acknowledge.
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We cannot heal or honestly examine what we do not acknowledge.
We have to listen to our own experience, to our own failures, to our own sin, to our own salvation, and we’ve got to recognize that we are a part of history, of a culture, of a religious group, for good and for bad.
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We have to listen to our own experience, to our own failures, to our own sin, to our own salvation, and we’ve got to recognize that we are a part of history, of a culture, of a religious group, for good and for bad.
Biblical revelation is saying that the only way we dare move up to the story and understand it with any depth is by moving through and taking responsibility for our personal story, our group story, and other stories.
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Biblical revelation is saying that the only way we dare move up to the story and understand it with any depth is by moving through and taking responsibility for our personal story, our group story, and other stories.
The biblical tradition takes all four domes seriously: my story, our story, other stories, and the story.
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The biblical tradition takes all four domes seriously: my story, our story, other stories, and the story.
It looks like it will take us some time, perhaps centuries, to resolve the human drive to exclude, to scapegoat, to judge, and to dismiss other peoples’ stories. Only nondual thinkers, mystics, and some saints seem capable of such universal capacity.
February 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It looks like it will take us some time, perhaps centuries, to resolve the human drive to exclude, to scapegoat, to judge, and to dismiss other peoples’ stories. Only nondual thinkers, mystics, and some saints seem capable of such universal capacity.
