Hooray for government action! Most everyone else in the circles I inhabit is very excited about the EPA’s clean power plan that was released yesterday. And like everyone in our local circles, I live on the border between two states with powerful officials that oppose this very sensible and forward-looking plan. So I wrote my […]
Joining the swelling movement among churches, colleges, and cities across the country, last Saturday the Presbyteries of both Mid-Kentucky and Arkansas voted with six other presbyteries for an overture to the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly recommending that the church divest from fossil fuel over the next five years, reinvesting our money instead in a […]
Sleet and snow all day yesterday. By mid-morning, every twig of every tree was a crystal shaft. It’s an enforced Sabbath. No lamps are lit today—the sunlight, unobstructed by foliage, refracts from the snow into every window. Bread is rising over the woodstove. I’m thinking of mixing pesto from last summer’s basil and garlic. […]