A pile of overripe bananas helped me say a good goodbye to my job that unexpectedly ended earlier this month when my entire department was closed as part of a reduction in workforce.
When can compromise be life-giving?
Eating from a narrower range of ingredients which can be used for a variety of dishes reduces food waste.
It’s May. It’s graduation season, and it’s the time to celebrate academic achievement and see folks off to what’s new. This year I got to celebrate my youngest brother Isaac’s graduation from high school.
Ascension Day, celebrated forty days after Easter, remembers Christ ascending into heaven before his disciples. It can seem abstract compared to the drama of Easter or Pentecost. Yet gardening has made me wonder whether that hiddenness is part of its wisdom.
I’m curious how many Anabaptist World readers will still be feeling Easter by the Thursday after. It’s an interesting thing to contemplate as I write during Holy Week. Right now, I can feel the swell of both passion and introspection. The time feels thick. And yet, even as I’m immersed in this week, I know next week will be very different.