by Kathy Hurt | Feb 17, 2022 | Reflections |
The fundamentalist church of my childhood fed me a steady diet of sin. Week after week, I heard in Sunday School lessons and sermons that all of us were sinful, hopelessly mired in evil, and nothing we did could make things better. Though the church offered us the...
by Kathy Hurt | May 6, 2021 | Reflections |
In the early days of the lockdown, I remember noticing how quiet the world had become. Less traffic when I drove, less traffic noise on the streets outside my home, fewer sounds of people going by on the sidewalks because everyone separated as they drew near. Across...
by Kathy Hurt | May 3, 2021 | Reflections |
Many spiritual traditions include stories of natural disasters or unusual and overwhelming natural events as interventions by God to challenge humanity’s present ways of proceeding and call all to repentance. In such stories, repentance is less about being sorry for...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 26, 2021 | Reflections |
Another insight we may eventually discover from our experience of the pandemic will come from the incomprehensible numbers of deaths, staggering figures of lives lost despite the care many of us took to follow safety guidelines, to wear masks and wash hands and...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 19, 2021 | Reflections |
With the race to be vaccinated underway, with many celebrating being able to resume a semblance of normality, with churches discussing how to reopen safely, we can perhaps begin to contemplate what the meaning of our pandemic experience has been, recognizing that such...
