The May Newsletter and May flowers are arriving! In Oregon, May blooms include the mimicking monkeyflowers, hairy balsamroot, and Pacific ninebark—a wild rose! For joy! The solitary bees that overwinter in the ninebark’s hollow stems are waking up. I am in...

  As followers of Jesus, we ask ourselves, “What can we do?” We know actions count. We have responsibilities. We care. We know we can’t be wholly letting go. This edition of the newsletter brings the needs of water into focus. With so much of our Earth covered by...

  March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, so the common proverb goes. It is a proverb built as many proverbs are, around the natural cycles of things. It is a proverb that resonates for the church calendar this year, also, as Palm Sunday and Passion Week...