Wondering Presbyterian

  Hello! How are you today? I hope you are doing well and hanging in there with everything going on! Have you found some good survival techniques? I listen to Jen Hatmaker’s “For the Love” podcast (her current series is For the Love of Black Lives and it is PHENOMENAL  and she always ends the podcast with a question from Barbara Brown Taylor: “What is saving your life right now?” Hopefully you’ve found something that is saving your life right now. Maybe it’s a new mac and cheese recipe (is it? You should share it!). Maybe it’s a show you’re binge-watching on Netflix or a daily phone call with a loved one.   I’m not going to tell you how to save your life today, but I do want to share with you a philosophy that I’ve starting practicing when I lead virtual studies. I lead with what I call “The Three Graces” and I’ve realized that the Three Graces are as applicable to real life as they are to online bible study.   1)     Grace for the time . In online bible study, this means keeping my ho

                I do not repost political things on my social media pages for two reasons: A) Because I don’t have the energy for social media post wars and B) because even if I agree with certain views, I try to keep my posts neutral. If I do post something, it is never my intent to make things political. And my basic response when someone posts something political with which I vehemently disagree is: DO NOT ENGAGE.     But of course, social media is full of politics. It has been since its inception, and it always ramps up during an election year. Recently, a social media friend posted something political and another social media friend raked her across the coals for it. Or took her to task for it (it really depends on your point of view, right?). They support two different candidates. A duplex house near the church where I serve has two porches: one porch with a flag supporting one candidate, the other porch with a flag of Martin Luther King Jr.’s face and remarks about love and just