by tashmcgill | Mar 20, 2012 | Spirituality, Youth Work
Well, it’s 17 days til I break my Lenten fast. Before you start quibbling, I’m following the liturgical calendar, not the Orthodox, so I’ll be finishing on Maundy Thursday. That’s 17 days (or more importantly, nights) away. Usually about this...
by tashmcgill | Feb 24, 2012 | Church, Spirituality, youth ministry
This picture tells the story of Irma Ivanova, a Bulgarian woman who was arrested for drug trafficking (a charge she denied) in Ecuador and at the time of this photo, in 2007, had been imprisoned for 3 years without trial or verdict in her case. When I saw it,...
by tashmcgill | Feb 22, 2012 | Spirituality
Ash Wednesday is a strange day, especially in New Zealand today as we remember the anniversary of the Feb 22. quake in Christchurch. I’ve been writing about the Phoenix mythology lately, as well as fire and it’s all imagery that suits the beginning of a...
by tashmcgill | Mar 10, 2011 | Culture & Ideas, Prose & Poetry, Spirituality
Whenever I begin to feel cluttered in my head, I can see the telltale signs in my environment. It starts in my car – a piece of paper left in one place for too long. A plastic water bottle that never gets put in the recycling bin. Then it travels to my office,...
by tashmcgill | Mar 20, 2009 | eastercamp, god ideas, Uncategorized, worship
On Time – History Is Sometimes A MirrorHistory and hindsight do amazing things for our sense of place in the world. In the context of current economic strife – I wonder many things. Certainly, we have been in similar places throughout our human storybook....
