Blog Home is Wherever I’m With You My boyfriend got a puppy this week.He bought her a few weeks ago and finally got to bring her home…Laura de JongJuly 28, 2022
Blog Ode to Joy About a month ago I got to experience something pretty close to magic. I was one of eighty or so…Laura de JongJuly 14, 2022
Blog The Day After I don’t know what comes next. I trust that the Spirit continues to lead his church, and I know I…Laura de JongJune 16, 2022
Blog Pond Contours Here’s my big wondering then. Could it be that we might in fact still be able to experience a sense…Laura de JongJune 2, 2022
Blog Trilliums There are trilliums by the creek behind my house.White trinities of soft joy in the evening light,scattered across the hillside…Laura de JongMay 19, 2022
Blog Can We Complicate Our Worship Conversations? The conversation about worship planning is big, nuanced, and complicated. It encompasses not just the songs we sing, but prayers,…Laura de JongMay 5, 2022
Blog Wild Geese The geese were a nuisance. But they were also fascinating. And we knew they were only being a nuisance because…Laura de JongApril 21, 2022
Blog Capacious We are working to make hearts that are capable of containing much joy and much sorrow, hearts capacious enough to…Laura de JongApril 7, 2022
Blog Resident Aliens What does it mean to engage with this world, in all its beauty and its ugliness? How do we press…Laura de JongDecember 2, 2021
Blog What Language Shall I Borrow? Is the attempt to describe the heart of Jesus doomed from the start because we feel our words – a…Laura de JongOctober 28, 2021