PACHAMAMA PONDERING, 2022 By Rev. Ellie Stock, Honorably Retired One more time the alarm shrieks! (Ironically, paralleling folks’ being attracted to Halloween week’s scary, shriek-filled haunted houses and horror flicks, and faux death skeleton and ghost yard décor, while, simultaneously, shying away from engaging with life’s real scary issues) Another mass school shooting! This time, it happened (well, it doesn’t…
Guest blog post by Rev. Ellie Stock, Honorably Retired On this day, we Christians find ourselves in the second week of Lent, the liturgical season, remembering Jesus’ journey to the Cross and reminding us of our own calling to be followers of the Jesus Way, even to the Cross—the Way of giving one’s self intentionally, radically, fully, and unconditionally. Today…