Church Adventures
Posted: October 19, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: notions, resting brain, spatial orientation
I don’t see myself as a bumbling, muddle-headed person but sometimes I feel like one. Last Sunday at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, many of my brain injury challenges showed up. Twenty-three years after my TBI I still think of my challenges as separate from me rather than part of who I am. I wonder when […]
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Communion
Posted: September 26, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Communion
I led communion this past Sunday at the church I attend in the late afternoon – Circle of Mercy. I really like public speaking but I still always get nervous. (Fun fact: Some studies say public speaking is a person’s greatest fear.) Maybe if I had been leading worship these past twenty odd years; this […]
Read more...The Gift of Vulnerability
Posted: August 30, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Vulnerability
I have a difficult time “tooting my own horn,” as they say so I am grateful Joyce Hollyday who helped me write my book, Forgetting the Former Things: Brain Injury’s Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith, wrote a post on her blog about it on June 6 2019. (joycehollyday.com). I am printing it below. “The jangle […]
Read more...Faith 4 Justice
Posted: June 20, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: faith, faith4justice
Faith 4 Justice is a group of ecumenical church leaders in Asheville led by Tami Forte Logan who have been meeting for a couple of years. Tami sent out a reminder for the meeting and it was the next day. I had planned on attending another meeting in the afternoon but decided to try doing […]
Read more...Gospel of Mark
Posted: April 20, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
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The gospel of Mark has two endings. The first ending is in 16:8 while the second adds ten more verses. I won’t go into all the reasons there are two endings but I will say, the first one speaks to me. The following is Mark 16:1-8 in the Common English Bible (the women’s edition). I […]
Read more...Final Manuscript of My Book
Posted: March 16, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: book, formerthings, Vulnerability
Joyce sent the final manuscript of my book – Forgetting the Former Things: Brain Injury’s Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith to Wipf and Stock publishers on June 1. At first, she was going to edit my work but as the days progressed, it became clear my brain injury challenges made this impossible. I needed her […]
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