Being Franciscan in Saudi Arabia
One of my secret delights as a Franciscan on my Saudi Arabia trip was to be retracing the steps of Francis in my journey. St. Francis of Assisi travelled to…
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American Woman in Saudi Arabia
On our trip to Saudi Arabia, my Saudi hosts frequently addressed the issue of gender and how we women were doing, and God knows it was a concern for some…
Six days in Saudi, Part I
I think I have been asked, “What was it like in Saudi Arabia?” about 45 times since I returned on October 16, and about five friends have asked why I…
Marcheremos en la luz de Dios
As I said at a work meeting of Berkeley chapel ministers yesterday, sometimes God comes in a trickle, and sometimes God comes in a waterfall. I seem to be standing…
Abiding with the unpredictable, Part 2
Friends, if you’ve been reading my blog, you know that 12 of us Yale Divinity and Law students have been invited to visit Saudi Arabia in October. Many of you…
Abiding with the unpredictable, Part 1
Friends, I just started my second year of seminary, but this year is nothing like the last. Last year, everything was new, exciting, and somewhat daunting. This year, everything is…
More proof that God listens and cares….
Now that I am done with Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), I can admit that there were times, especially around 3:30 in the morning when I was the only hospital chaplain…
Praying in Arabic and Hindi
One of the most interesting things about my hospital chaplaincy is that I visit patients of all faiths and no faiths every day and try to figure out how to…
The daily dose of death
There is death, and then there is death. There are the deaths that result from a lifetime of illnesses, or perhaps a deadly disease that finally has taken its toll…
Watch out what you pray for….
When last I wrote, dear reader, you may recall that I was worried about being called to serve as a chaplain to a family that had lost a baby while…
For whom the sirens toll…
The sound of sirens is fairly common around Yale and my end of New Haven, and it didn’t really sink in until this week why that is: they are from…
“Are you coming back to California?”
After finishing my coursework for my first year of seminary, I hopped on a plane and visited my daughter at her college in Seattle and then swung down to California…
Sometimes, seminary makes me cry
Okay, here’s another big difference between seminary and “regular” graduate school: seminary makes me cry. And I like seminary! But I don’t remember my graduate studies in English and American…
So many good tidings, so many papers
Well, the opportunities just keep aflowing, and so do the research notes and jotted outlines for papers. Most of my waiting is over for this semester. One exciting bit of…
Gospel on the Ground 