Thoughts, prayers, anecdotes, opinions, and personal reflections of CCS staff
It’s September. That means CCS staff are out visiting our students across the country for field placement orientations. This is Sparky, a fictional, totally made up CCS student preparing for diaconal ministry. Ted (somewhat less fictional CCS program staff) is visiting her in her home community of Oxter, Ontario. On a Saturday afternoon in September, Ted, Sparky,…
Pelicans don’t really pierce their own chests with their beaks and feed their young with the blood, but the writers of medieval bestiaries thought they did.
What are the roots of your faith, and how does it feel when those roots are exposed by erosion?
Ann Naylor’s sabbatical focused on the significance of image, music, and sabbath.
A litany in memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the continuing need for peace in our world.
Brenda Curtis exposes youth from Humboldt, SK, to the reality of life in Mexico.
Does writing exclusively in an active voice aid and abet a societal overemphasis on doing over being?
Listen for the voice of the Holy One in your own faith journey as diligently and lovingly as birders attend to the melody of their flying friends.
Ted Dodd, Caryn Douglas, and others lead a worship, lament, and apology to women who were “disjoined” from paid ministry because they got married
Ted Dodd offers some reflection tools to deepen our experience of Passion Sunday and Easter
“When they were young, we took our children every Sunday, but now they’re older and they don’t go. What did we do wrong?”
“People who live in winter appreciate the spring.” Kimiko Karpoff reflects on winter.
Ted has been contemplating the gospel readings for Lent. He offers this series of reflections, inviting folks to consider taking a day a week during this period to pray the scripture, follow the suggestions for spiritual practices and consider the questions about life in faith.
This past weekend, February 7-9, 2014, Ted Dodd was privileged to attend a guided retreat on Celtic Spirituality, with the highly regarded preacher, author, and hymn lyricist, Herbert O’Driscoll. These are Ted’s reflections on the event… O’Driscoll cast a magic spell as he explored the topic with grace and a poet’s soul. With a breadth…
Earlier this month, CCS program staff member Ted Dodd attended a course on Diaconal History and Spirituality at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.