When No One Else Will Fight For Us
A slow-moving choral music piece has captured the Rev. Lee Roorda Schott's imagination with its plea for God to bring peace to our troubled, chaotic nation and world.
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Perhaps the simplest of all the answers, as we try to figure out which observed problems ought to prompt our response, is to remember to ask: “Is this MY problem? Is it even any of my business?”...
View ArticleThen.
Have you experienced such a “then”? A time when you were at the end of your rope and you found God ministering to you the exact thing you needed? when you were full of reasons and excuses and God...
View ArticleSomeone Else's House
In a culture where home ownership is highly valued and often regarded as a mark of successful adulting, it’s peculiar—and somewhat unsettling—to find oneself in someone else’s house. We’re all in...
View ArticleLike a Chain Restaurant
What qualities does a local church share with popular chain restaurants? How should those qualities be adapted to a faith setting?
View ArticleAbout Time
In daily life, we don’t worry about our clocks not keeping time precisely with the sun. And that slippage is not that different than the truth we have all experienced: precision is the exception where...
View ArticleRevisiting Our Holy Words
We’ve been shaped (mis-shaped) by language that unvaryingly invites us to regret rather than to reorient. What if our Bibles showed us a bold Jesus who bursts on the scene with an invitation to utterly...
View ArticleWinning through…Flossing?
Persons in recovery know the power—the symbolic win—of managing to complete that thing that you’d rather not. That win might help you stay on track to not do the thing you know you have to stay away from.
View ArticleAbiding in Hope
Moving from the exile of the past few years, we may not yet be fully in hope, but we're getting there. All of us have known loss, and yet most of us are still standing in resilience. Our hope as...
View ArticleThe Light We Almost Miss
What does it take to notice life's simple joys and wonders, to name their belovedness, day by day by shortening day? Wouldn’t we be healthier, in mind and spirit, if we did?
View ArticleGod’s Calling. Again.
Do we know what it means to be called? If you’re a layperson, do you describe yourself that way? “Called”? The Church uses that language for all of us, clergy and lay.
View ArticleLaziness, Sometimes
When we apply John Wesley's teaching on keeping busy to today, with our 24-7 busy-ness and instantaneous accessibility of messages and information and distractions, tends to reinforce some of our worst...
View Article[Your name here]
How important is it that we know one another by our true names? If scripture is to be believed, it was crucially important when the Risen Christ called Mary by her name.
View ArticleWhat Little I Can Do
Each voice lifted up against injustice or harm feels so small. It turns out that what each of us can do, though, as little as it may seem, is not nothing.
View ArticleSkillful Strings and Loud Shouts
Rev. Lee Roorda Schott's personal code – 333 – refers to Psalm 33, especially its third verse, which instructs God's people to praise and rejoice with skillful playing and loud voices.
View ArticleWelcome, Welcome, Welcome
The shifting, changing nature of our emotions is something we could take advantage of. But do we? No. Instead, when an emotion comes up, we fuel it with our thoughts, and what should last 1-1/2 minutes...
View ArticleThe Silence in Between
It was easy to write about exile. We were all feeling it. Shared agony, and confusion, and frustration are fodder for abundant words. Hope is different. Hope birthed is a long way from hope realized....
View ArticleDay One on the Job, Two Years In
The Rev. Lee Roorda Schott, one of those who started their current ministries in 2020, draws hope for the future from church experts who invite pastors and other church workers to consider themselves...
View ArticleFrom Exile to Hope
The writing team preparing the Iowa Conference's spiritual resource "Abiding ..." discerned that, while we still may be journeying through exile, it's time to turn our vision to hope.
View ArticleWhen We No Longer Know What to Do
Not knowing isn’t a crisis; it’s a clue. Those things—the ones we don’t know how to do but put them on our list anyway—must be ones we're feeling a call to pursue, or else they wouldn’t be there.
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