Susan CartmellMay 22 minDon't Lose Your Humanity...EverA week ago, I saw two stories about hope on the same page of the newspaper. {Boston Globe, 4/23/22} Both took place in Ukraine. The...
Susan CartmellApr 203 minDon’t Waste Time Arguing About Easter…Just Enjoy ItThere are so many Easter stories and each one in the Bible is a little different. In every gospel, the women are the protagonists and...
Susan CartmellApr 113 minFully Human or Not?Anyone who thinks Jesus was not political does not really understand what’s going on in Holy Week. When Jesus came to Jerusalem he was...
Susan CartmellApr 43 minProfiles in FaithProfiles of Faith How did she do it? How did this brilliant jurist endure the insults, the interruptions, the obvious denigration from...
Susan CartmellMar 282 minSigns of ResilienceOutside in my garden this weekend, I found something that surprised me. When I pulled a cloth off the raised bed for vegetables I found...
Susan CartmellMar 213 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue: We Don't Talk About BrunoWhen I stopped at a red light a little voice in the backseat asked me to play that song about Bruno. As we pulled away from the...
Susan CartmellMar 143 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue - Healing in Our HandsMy God, my God, enough. After two years of a pandemic that killed 6 million people in the world, now Russia invades Ukraine. (Actually ...
Susan CartmellMar 73 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue: Ugh... Where are You Hiding God?Lent is never easy but this is one of the Lentier Lents we’ve had and we’ve had some bad ones recently. Two years ago, at the start of...
Susan CartmellFeb 282 minCOVID's Spiritual Fatigue: Lessons from HistoryOne hundred years ago at the end of World War I some people in the United States wanted to punish the Germans, but not President Woodrow...
Susan CartmellFeb 142 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue: Using FearI love to watch the Olympics but these winter sports can be terrifying if you really think about actual people doing them. Who sails out...
Susan CartmellFeb 72 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue - Finding HopeLast year we bought tickets for the Van Gogh exhibit touring the country. It called to us. Apparently, the art isn’t set in frames on a...
Susan CartmellJan 313 minCOVID Spiritual Fatigue: Handling our FearThe Bible says, “Be not Afraid” but who are we kidding? We are all afraid. We just try to hide it. “Don’t let them know you are afraid.” ...
Susan CartmellJan 242 minLove will Guide Us...Through this Hard NightI have spent the last few months talking to pastors and rabbis about how they have led their churches and synagogues through this...
Susan CartmellJan 183 minWe all have scars; some are visible.Last summer I was cleaning my shed when I tripped on my patio and fell down hard. At the time, I had been holding clay pots that and they...
Susan CartmellJan 102 minCOVID's Spiritual FatigueCOVID’s Spiritual Fatigue When you look up “COVID fatigue” online you discover that it is the symptom of this pandemic that causes a dull...
Susan CartmellDec 21, 20212 minSearching for the LightSolstice and Christmas in a Pandemic 2021 – Solstice is a day I always wait for; it’s a turning point, a hinge moment, each year. The...
Susan CartmellDec 20, 20213 minLeaning into the Light2021 When you stand in this drafty season of Advent, the longer you try to stay your course the more the wind picks up – pulling you in...
Susan CartmellFeb 17, 20213 minKeeping it Real in LentI know Lent starts today but this Lent is different. It comes after a year of penitence and self-examination. It is hard to find the...
Susan CartmellSep 22, 20202 minPreaching in a PandemicWith the arrival of the coronavirus, COVID 19, our society has changed completely; nowhere has that change been more powerfully felt than...
Susan CartmellAug 7, 20203 minBack to School?One of the biggest tensions in many families today is the confusion people feel about whether to send their kids to school in the fall....