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“It’s about healing your own soul first, so that you don’t become the evil you abhor.” — Bishop Gretchen Rehberg Many attended yesterday's Spirit of America service in Cashmere. Yesterday I sat with perhaps two hundred or more others at the 9/11 Spirit of America Memorial here in Cashmere, Washington. Twenty-five years have passed since September 11, 2001. Some of us can remember exactly where we were when we first heard the news. (One of our sons was in New York; we were hor

“Look carefully at the people who are truly flourishing. They may not be the people you expected.”— A contemporary paraphrase of Jesus’ Beatitudes Enjoying food with friends after church; how would they feel about a program which called people from Kyrgyzstan our "Muslim neighbors"? I was enjoying food with a group of women after church last Sunday when our conversation turned briefly to Kyrgyzstan. John is returning tomorrow from traveling there with our neighbor Randy Smith

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer them with love.” — Mahatma Gandhi It happened at our simple and popular community dinner Thursday night. The Seventh Day Adventists served their signature vegetarian “haystacks.” Usually it’s an easy-going, if a little rowdy, environment. That’s how these things often begin—not in lecture halls or debates, but at long tables where people come carrying their fully human selves. John had sat down with a young woman and her

If you want to understand me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in...

People think compassion is a soft skill. The strongest people I know are the most compassionate. True compassion requires superhuman...

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May, noted American psychologist I use...