Author Archives: Linda Calkins

I’m not a fan of the term ‘Lord’ for God, or Jesus, or really anyone or anything. It’s too patriarchal and too feudal in its origins. Sometimes I substitute Wisdom, sometimes just skip the usage of this word. And God is far more than a pronoun, even though both Hebrew Scripture and New Testament referContinue reading “Worship”

Psalm 89 is not the easiest psalm to read. It’s long, it’s got some history to it, and it feels too old. But there is a verse, a section actually, that speaks to me about God’s disappearance. ‘How long will you hide yourself…will you hide yourself forever?…Remember how short life is, how frail you haveContinue reading “Where did you go, God?”

This word, lamentation, has very little meaning for us in our modern language. It was used in Scripture to note a time of deep distress. There is even a book in the Hebrew Scripture entitles ‘The Lamentations of Jeremiah’. But for this day, Psalm 56, the verse that has been, for me, one of comfortContinue reading “Lamentations and Shadows”