by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Mar 1, 2018 | Reflections |
As a way of coping with the frequent relocations required by my career in ministry, I learned early on to be largely inattentive to place. No sense in getting attached to a particular home or a particular neighborhood, I figured, since I would not be there for long. ...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Feb 13, 2018 | Publications |
This year Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day land on the same day, an odd pairing of somber ritual and extravagant celebration. The two holidays could not be more different as they pull the spirit in opposite directions. I find myself wondering if some couples will...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Jan 30, 2018 | Reflections |
In Gift from the Sea, author Anne Morrow Lindbergh observes how we tend to interpret the waning of passion in a relationship as something negative, a sign of things gone wrong. To counter that conclusion, Lindbergh develops the metaphor of tides that alternate...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Jan 18, 2018 | Reflections |
The area in which I live had its first snowstorm and serious cold of the season during the last few days. As happens every year with winter, I watched myself and my neighbors learn, again, the different functioning that winter requires: extra layers of clothing,...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Jan 4, 2018 | Reflections |
A favorite story that shows up in Christmas sermons and candlelight services each year recounts the presentation of a Christmas pageant in which a developmentally challenged young man plays the role of the innkeeper who turns away Mary and Joseph when they are seeking...
