Long Journey Home

By Sarah E. Reynolds

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• Faith doesn't build walls, it tears them down

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 31
  Recently I overheard someone lamenting the fact that the Lord's prayer is no longer said in public schools in the United States. I don't think ...
  

• Pleasures of spring

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Apr 26
  My mom had a theory that everyone likes best the season in which they were born. I've seen this borne out in a number of cases, though no doubt ...
  

• What a way to lead

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Mar 22
  I'm writing this nearly a week before you will read it. I can't imagine what the people of Christchurch, New Zealand – and the whole country, in ...
  

• Love's true meaning

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 22
  Ten years ago last week, Feb. 14, 2009, my mother died. The anniversary adds a twinge of sadness to the romance of Valentine's Day. It's hard to ...
  

• Mary Oliver opens the temple door

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 25
  Mary Oliver died Jan. 17 at her home in Florida. A native of Ohio, she lived for many years in Provincetown, Mass., at the end of Cape Cod. She ...
  

• Tending the divine spark in creation

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Dec 21
  A friend of mine says that when she was a child she wondered why, if Christmas was Jesus' birthday, she got presents then. She didn't get presents ...
  

• Happy temptation season

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Nov 23
  Thanksgiving begins the annual season of temptation, with a plethora of goodies making their appearance in offices and homes across the land. For ...
  

• Asking for trouble -- again

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 28
  Let me just get myself into a little more hot water here about politics and religion. I've already annoyed at least one reader, who objected to my ...
  

• The grip of the present

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Aug 31
  "You never miss the water until the well runs dry," as the saying goes. I can state unequivocally, however, that once the well does run dry, it ...
  

• An embrace wide enough for the whole world

  By Sarah E. Reyolds - Aug 03
  I've seen a couple of bio-pics this summer about people I admire: "RBG," about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and "Won't You Be My ...
  

• There is no 'should.' There is only what is.

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - May 17
  According to an article I read recently, the Buddha said, "Suffering is the demand that experience be different than it is." That struck me as ...
  

• Love -- the long game

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Apr 12
  A few weeks ago, United Methodists from around the world met for a conference in St. Louis. The most widely covered part of the meeting was the ...
  

• Will you come to the party?

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Mar 08
  I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the story of the prodigal son from the Gospel according to Luke. If I were asked to pick a ...
  

• Dazzled by nature, getting free

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Feb 08
  One of the nice things about living with someone for a long time is that you're influenced by their interests and habits. My spouse, Maureen, has ...
  

• The best Christmas present

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jan 11
  Christmas presents are wonderful, and this year I received some wonderful presents. Just as much -- or more -- fun is finding presents for those I ...
  

• Have yourself a merry

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Dec 07
  I haven't started feeling very Christmas-y yet, have you? If so, you may not want to read on — you can just go enjoy all that Christmas spirit. ...
  

• Heads I win, tails you lose

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Nov 09
  Listening to the news can really make you think. On my way to work one recent morning, I heard a story on National Public Radio's "Morning ...
  

• On the intersection of religion and politics

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 14
  One of the vexed questions our country has wrestled with for the last many years has been the proper intersection of religion and politics, and -- ...
  

• Adventures on the Sunrise Trail

  By Sarah E. Reyolds - Aug 17
  A blue tongue of sky lolled through cloud as the ATV whined along the pine-scented trail between Ellsworth and Machias. I was on vacation, and ...
  

• Right as you usually are

  By Sarah E. Reynolds - Jul 20
  One of the hazards of the modern workplace -- like the rest of the modern world -- is noise. Of course, the definition of "noise" is "sound that ...