Ash Wednesday
Posted: February 27, 2020 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Ash Wednesday, Lent
Lent is my favorite time of the church year. I went to Haywood Street Methodist yesterday and received the imposition of the ashes. Haywood Street is a church with people who have homes and some who do not. Local restaurants take turns providing a free meal with three serving times offered prior to worship on […]
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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 […]
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