Looking forward to more of your writing in the coming year and I am excited to hear more about your book club! I'm newly ordained, newly retired from teaching, and looking forward to Lent and my first opportunity to preach the entire season.
I am a retired priest recruited to get a small church through the pandemic on ZOOM. I have enjoyed reading you since a mutual friend The Rev. Shawn Carty told me about you and your writings. It has been a confirmation that the whole world wasn't going crazy, that there were still loving thoughts. Somewhere truth was still important and said with grace. I was a Southern Presbyterian, worked at the Methodist Publishing House, taught in Catholic School, became an Episcopal priest. Your writings have helped my preaching this year and more importantly have both challenged and soothed my soul.
Thank you so much for your writing in The Cottage. I'm retired clergy who used your books and insights as I led my small church in Columbus, OH. I also attended a retreat/event you led there and spoke to you briefly. And my soul sisters group here in Corvallis, OR, read together your book Gratitude. I also loved your book Grounded (which I'm re-reading) and your The People's History of Christianity (which I confess I haven't read all of because I fell in love with the early church's practice of hospitality. I was a Presbyterian pastor who also worshipped at a local synagogue and now attend a Methodist church that not only has a great ministry to the homeless, specifically homeless women as well as an Environmental Care Faith in Action Team that I now lead. Your writing has been a lifesaver for me, especially in the last few months that have been so trying. I really resonate with you words "a more generous Christianity." Thanks for brightening my inbox and my life twice a week.
Diana, your columns make me think and remind me what is important about Jesus. Not worshipping, but following. Much more difficult! And rewarding! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the Advent posts with L'engles poems. She has long been a favorite author but Ididn't know her poetry. Those poems were just right for this Advent. They fit in with a reflection from Walter Brueggemann in Celebrating Abundance about the need to move from facts and figures to poetry in Advent.
I look to you each time you write to help me stay “grounded”! That book in particular is just about my all time favorite on spirituality!! I have also especially found meaning in the Celtic works of J. Phillip Newell. I listened to your “talk” with him at Chautauqua. Just keep on writing with your compassionate heart and your beautiful mind! I am “grateful!!”
Looking forward to more of your writing in the coming year and I am excited to hear more about your book club! I'm newly ordained, newly retired from teaching, and looking forward to Lent and my first opportunity to preach the entire season.
I am a retired priest recruited to get a small church through the pandemic on ZOOM. I have enjoyed reading you since a mutual friend The Rev. Shawn Carty told me about you and your writings. It has been a confirmation that the whole world wasn't going crazy, that there were still loving thoughts. Somewhere truth was still important and said with grace. I was a Southern Presbyterian, worked at the Methodist Publishing House, taught in Catholic School, became an Episcopal priest. Your writings have helped my preaching this year and more importantly have both challenged and soothed my soul.
Thank you for your gift of writing. I look forward to every posting.
Thank you so much for your writing in The Cottage. I'm retired clergy who used your books and insights as I led my small church in Columbus, OH. I also attended a retreat/event you led there and spoke to you briefly. And my soul sisters group here in Corvallis, OR, read together your book Gratitude. I also loved your book Grounded (which I'm re-reading) and your The People's History of Christianity (which I confess I haven't read all of because I fell in love with the early church's practice of hospitality. I was a Presbyterian pastor who also worshipped at a local synagogue and now attend a Methodist church that not only has a great ministry to the homeless, specifically homeless women as well as an Environmental Care Faith in Action Team that I now lead. Your writing has been a lifesaver for me, especially in the last few months that have been so trying. I really resonate with you words "a more generous Christianity." Thanks for brightening my inbox and my life twice a week.
Diana, your columns make me think and remind me what is important about Jesus. Not worshipping, but following. Much more difficult! And rewarding! Thanks!
Kay Shurden
Thank you so much for the Advent posts with L'engles poems. She has long been a favorite author but Ididn't know her poetry. Those poems were just right for this Advent. They fit in with a reflection from Walter Brueggemann in Celebrating Abundance about the need to move from facts and figures to poetry in Advent.
I look to you each time you write to help me stay “grounded”! That book in particular is just about my all time favorite on spirituality!! I have also especially found meaning in the Celtic works of J. Phillip Newell. I listened to your “talk” with him at Chautauqua. Just keep on writing with your compassionate heart and your beautiful mind! I am “grateful!!”
Diana, please read my paper ‘Jesus practiced Advance Care Planning’ at https://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2020.0012 May it provide you with inspiration for Lent, and be useful to many in these times. Thx Grace.Johnston@Dal.Ca