Dear Friends, The holiday season is here. And there might be a way to use the SPICES’ focus on simplicity to make it memorable while lowering the stress of the…
Dear Friends, I remember taking a spirituality class in seminary where we were all told to bring cameras or phones to take pictures of God in nature. That year we…
Dear Friends, The light from the sun is getting to us in smaller and smaller amounts as we await the holiday seasons coming up. It has been rainy and dim…
Dear Friends, It seems fitting that the colors for Halloween are mostly purple, gold, yellow and orange. I wish there were a way to wish you all a happy…
Dear Friends, The town hall about the unsheltered in our town was held last night in the Union Hall on the Oregon Institute of Technology’s campus. It was good…
Dear Friends, It has been quite the week. We have been preparing for friends who are coming to visit this weekend, and then the person running the workshop on reconciliation…
rec·on·cil·i·a·tion /ˌrekənˌsilēˈāSHən/ noun noun: reconciliation; plural noun: reconciliations 1) the restoration of friendly relations. “his reconciliation with your uncle” 2) the action of making one view or belief compatible with another. “he aims to bring about a reconciliation…
Dear Friday with Friends, Today is a normal Friday in many ways. I know I hear from people that they are depressed, scared, or angry about the cultural environment during…
Dear Friends, When speech is free, what do we decide to say? There was an old Native American (Cherokee) adage that a person is given only so many words to…
Dear Friends, “Violence begets violence; hate begets hate; and toughness begets a greater toughness. It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction” were the words of Martin…