A single joyous act can lighten the darkness—for both giver and receiver. I love Angel Tree gifts! This little one is a STEM girl and we are excited to put together some special gifts for her. Thanks @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social for what you do here 💜 🎁

As a writer I find this comforting. We write to have conversations with people in other times and places. Books are carriers of legacy. Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...

Robert picked a second batch of apples off our Granny Smith tree yesterday. She’s a fierce tree living at 4,000 feet in snow & ice, deer and squirrels nibbling at her leaves & bark. This year she gave us the most apples ever! Be like Granny and stand strong; raise your voice and tell your stories 💜🍏

Two fellow students, Susy Flory & Scott Johanningsmeier, initiated a book project entitled, "Jesus Was" & several students contributed chapters. A special forward was written for the book by Scot X. McKnight. Kregel Pub. Is going to publish it - Spring 2025. Excited to share this book with you!

Looking for theological women to follow? Me too! If you’re a female seminary grad, a current student or faculty, here’s a starter pack of humans to follow. Please send suggestions (including yourself) for who else to add! go.bsky.app/UaVjTCV

What are five topics you could talk about for 30 minutes straight?

- women writers in the ancient world, esp NT
- Ireland, esp history
- how to write a memoir, well
- equine intelligence
- squirrels as an ecosystem keystone (6 species) in our rich western Sierra Nevada mountains of CA

What I am telling writers in my flock today: Writing is a subversive act. Writers are resistors. Use your pen, lift your voice, tell your story, don’t give up. Resist.

New to Blue Sky? Me too. If you’re a female seminary grad, current student or faculty, here’s a starter pack of humans to follow. Please send suggestions for who else to add! go.bsky.app/UaVjTCV

A final thought on pulpit supply: Being new to this, the term has been a little jarring. Pulpit supply sounds more like an object, like tissues or a water bottle stored behind the pulpit. I’d like to propose the term be retired for something more encouraging, and more personal. #elca

I kind of like “guest shepherd” !

I asked Claude.ai to come up with a few less impersonal titles: Guest preaching ministry, Sunday morning companion,
Worship support partner,
Pastoral presence, Sabbath fellowship minister,
Guest shepherd,
Interim worship guide,
Sunday morning associate,
Temporary faith companion

Okay Lutherans (and maybe other high church humans). I’ve been preaching every other month at my ELCA church in the mountains and I’ve just found out I am considered “pulpit supply.” Oy. Way to make a girl feel appreciated. Please fill me in. Why the term? Where does it come from?! #lutheran #elca

Welcome to my corner of the woods! Incense cedars, Douglas firs, ponderosa pines and more are our “landscaping” in CA on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the US. We have a wildlife rehabber in the house and things get a little crazy here.

As a fill-in for our pastor using up some vacation days, I preached about the widow with the two mites last Sunday, used this Bonhoeffer quote, and bashed Christian nationalism. People said thank you #hope #elca

New to Blue Sky? Me too. If you’re a female seminary grad, current student or faculty, here’s a starter pak. Please send suggestions for who to add! go.bsky.app/UaVjTCV

I read, write, teach a lot—mostly on Zoom. I live in the mountains and it can be isolating. But then there’s the backyard