Minister of Vulnerability
Posted: June 1, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
In my book, Forgetting the Former Things: Brain Injury’s Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith (2019), I tell a story about getting ready for the Institute for Theology and Disability in 2017 which took place in Los Angeles, California. I had a million things to do. I got a haircut. I went to the grocery store […]
Read more...Word Dump
Posted: January 20, 2024 by Tamara Puffer
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Prior to 2020, Websters dictionary defined racism as the superiority of one race over another. In 2020, Kennedy Mitchum a student who had just graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, didn’t think the definition went far enough. She wrote to the editors: “Racism is not only prejudice against a certain race due to […]
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Violin
Posted: December 16, 2023 by Tamara Puffer
I’ve been putting off writing this post by checking Facebook, drinking coffee, walking Chip and a whole lot of other things. I’m feeling several emotions at once and I don’t really want to think about them. After putting my violin up for sale at a shop in Raleigh, it finally sold. I feel relief, grief, […]
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Vulnerability
Posted: September 8, 2023 by Tamara Puffer
Due to my brain injury, I don’t do well with change. My brain is less pliable and conducive to new information. Prior to the summer, the pews were taken out of the sanctuary at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church and replaced with chairs. I like it with a couple of caveats. The choir loft area in […]
Read more...The Canaanite Woman
Posted: August 14, 2023 by Tamara Puffer
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This is a sermon that I preached at Circle of Mercy on August 13. The text is Matthew 15:21-28. Here is the audio recording if you would rather listen than read: What an odd story this is! When I’m reading Matthew’s Gospel, I tend to skip over it and pay attention to the stories before […]
Read more...Violin and Viola
Posted: February 16, 2023 by Tamara Puffer
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We are going to Raleigh next week to take my violin and Viola, have work done and put them up for consignment in one of the shops there. We went to Charlotte a couple of years ago and had a violin shop there look at them. They thought the shop in Raleigh would do a […]
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