Tag Archives: Murphy

Looking Through a Glass Darkly

Means and Ends When Yahweh-Elohim decided to free the Hebrews way down in Egyptland, she used only the forces of nature and the devastation of death (fl ies and toads, etc., but no drones). In the usa today we are dying by disease and workaholism. Many of our diseases are caused by American culture, based [...]

Murphy Davis and the Journey Toward Health, Peace, and Justice

Hospitality, September 2005, Vol. 24, No. 9   Dear Friends, This week we got the gift of life:  Murphy Davis has been taken off the Bone Marrow Track.  She is not heading toward a transplant. Over a year ago, after her third recurrence of cancer, on the Sunday after our first clinic appointment, Rev. Anthony [...]

Dayspringfarm, the Turtle, and the Crow

Hospitality,  vol. 24, no. 3 Not long after the Beavers moved into our lower meadow, I found a dying box turtle crawling beside the swamp.  She was orange and black, horny, beautiful, old and ancient.  I did not know she was dying. The Beavers are giving a gift to us:  a backyard swamp, more properly [...]

Welcome Home

  Hospitality Vol. 21, no.6   Gidget is out of jail again! “Liberty to captives,” Jesus says, and is our mission.  “Let the oppressed go free,” the face of God continues.  Jesus’s mouth is full of his mentor Isaiah’s words.  “Welcome home, Gidget!” has been ringing up and down our hallways all week, and resounding [...]

Murphy Davis and Terry Mincey “Hard Ball in the Fast Lane”

  Hospitality Vol. 21, no.1   Recently I knelt beside Murphy’s bed and held her hand; I helped her breathe, deeply and regularly, as I did 22 years ago when Hannah came reluctantly from womb to world. Five times the needle was plunged deep into her back. Pain and hope battled all over the bed [...]