
Rev. Tracy Johnson
- Sep 26, 2021
“Principles Under Pressure”
Back in the day when my career within the prison system took me inside the locked gates to do case management work, I got an eyeful and an earful! Things like mass incarceration, the injustices of the criminal justice system, and the stories beneath the stories of people’s lives that undergirded the choices and decisions they had made. Sensory overload! All of these things are great topics for us to explore, but that’s not what I am here today to talk about. I was also ma

Rev. Tracy Johnson
- Sep 12, 2021
"Mingled Waters"
I love ‘Ingathering’! In part this may be so because it involves a ritual and I find in the rituals that dot our calendar a certain sense of comfort, of peace, of confidence in the cycles of life. For some of you, ritual may not be as valuable a tool in the course of your days, a little too ‘high church’, but still you show up, some with water in hand today and some not, but you bear with me as I attempt to make meaning for us at what is technically the start of the church