I wonder: Would knowing when people are lying be a gift? Or would it just make life worse?
Debra RienstraMay 13, 2023
Wow, I didn’t know that Palm Sunday was about openness, inclusion, and tolerance. Something to reflect on, I guess. What about that donkey, shall we reflect on the donkey, too?
Debra RienstraApril 1, 2023
I’ll be processing this experience for a long time, but for now I'll share just a few key words that focused my thoughts during and after the trip.
Debra RienstraMarch 18, 2023
Depending on which corners of the church you hang around in, you might notice anything from heavy-duty activism to climate denial. So I’ve been wishing for a long time for hard data. What are the numbers on what actual church people are actually doing and…
Debra RienstraFebruary 18, 2023
It never occurred to him to see me, exhausted and falling to pieces, alone in that room with my mother as she labored on threshold of death.
Debra RienstraFebruary 4, 2023
Best-selling memoirs tend to tell big, dramatic stories—getting sober, the messy divorce, the cancer diagnosis, the series of lovers, living through war, recovering from abuse, the woes of being famous. For most of us, the challenge is to perceive the contours of our ordinary lives…
Debra RienstraJanuary 21, 2023
We’re all speculating here, I guess, with the understanding that the speculation is itself a process of hope: what do we long for? what outcomes can we imagine and, through that imagining, help enact?
Debra RienstraJanuary 4, 2023
A journey to who-knows-where to see who-knows-what without the proper supplies. We’re crazy.
Debra RienstraDecember 24, 2022
