@mavisluna

Drive Out the Darkness - song and lyrics by The Porter's Gate, Latifah Alattas, Paul Zach | Spotify

Kid Logic

Helping Grieving Mothers and Grandmothers | Sacred Sorrows

this is me trying

Love, love, love - by Mavis Moon - Email of God's Love

Not All Right by Tish Harrison Warren

Sesame Street - I Am Somebody - Jesse Jackson

www.plough.com

Glimmerings | Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian by Miroslav Volf & Christian Wiman

Easy Garlic Butter Steak Bites | Recipe | Steak bites, Easy lamb recipes, Vegetarian dishes

Light of the World

Lament Songs - Album by The Porter's Gate | Spotify

Arguments for Peace - How could there be a war in this city?

M.E.G.O. - My Eyes Glaze Over - by Mavis Moon

The sole of your foot

Why Minneapolis Needs Potlucks Now

40 Best Winter Dinner Ideas to Warm You Right Up

A Catholic convert’s ecumenical journey—and prayer for Christian unity

Scott Adams' Death

After the Rain - January 13, 2026 - MoonFamily

4 Easy Ways to Eat More Fiber - The New York Times

Brain Balls

Books I Read in 2025 - #36-40

Books I Read in 2025 - #36-40

Jesus, Name Above All Names | The Amen - Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts

Books I Read in 2025 — mavis moon

Extra-Marital Affairs & Parkinson's: My Father & Philip Yancey

Analysis of Nativity by Giotto

A Charlie Brown Christmas: Linus Explains the True Meaning Of Christmas

Regret -- Forgiveness

Regret -- Forgiveness

Regret -- Forgiveness

Surprising Nativity

Making Messiah — Freakonomics

freakonomics.com

freakonomics.com

Six New Poems by Wendell Berry

Image's Home Page - Image Journal

Elkhorn Slough Safari

Some real Afghans: Immigrants’ fear

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton

1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven

1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven

A (Reluctant) Living Testimony - Mockingbird

Mavis and the Wonderful, Delightful, Excellent, Very Good Day

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life - The New York Times

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. - The New York Times

Quantum Refuge

Quantum Refuge

Books I Read in 2025 - #32-35

Books I Read in 2025 - #32-35

Exponents of Falsehood - Mockingbird

Relaxed

Local News | Bellingham Herald

Local News | Bellingham Herald

Local News | Bellingham Herald

Local News | Bellingham Herald

Your Room

Your Room

Your Room

How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt - Freakonomics

Greek Lessons by Han Kang - by Mavis Moon - Kindred Spirits

English Teacher Weekly for Oct. 10th

English Teacher Weekly for Oct. 10th

These Are the Wildest, Juiciest Poems You’ll Ever Read

Bleeding Heart

Books I Read in 2025 - #30 & 31

Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" - Creative Time

Jane Goodall Dead: Eminent Chimpanzee Expert Was 91

No choice

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

Spaghetti Carbonara - Damn Delicious | Easy pasta dishes, Dinner recipes, Recipes

Gilligan's Island and Poetry

Easy Sole Meunière

Books I Read in 2025 - #26 to 28 - by Mavis Moon

We contain multitudes - by Mavis Moon - Email of God's Love

An Axe for the Frozen Sea by Ben Palpant

An Axe for the Frozen Sea by Ben Palpant

Selections from Tania Runyan's 'Poet Jesus' Project

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

When you say nothing at all

When you say nothing at all

Can We Ever Really Say "The Bible is Clear"? - Reformed Journal

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Moon Family Reunion , Jasper-Banff - July-August 2025 - Mavis Moon (MoonFamily)

Andy Squyres (@andysquyres)

Patient Trust - The Slow Work of God

A Merciful Surprise

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Stop wanting things (including people) to be different.

Orcas Island with Ed And Rox - Mavis Moon (MoonFamily)

Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing

Van Gogh's Flowers | New York Botanical Garden

English Creek by Ivan Doig

Math Problems for English Majors

God, how big do you love me?

Strike, Strike, Strike, Strike

Miracle Service

Birds - Mavis Moon (MoonFamily)

Getting the trailer out of winter storage. - Mavis Moon (MoonFamily)

He's Alive

*Instructions for Traveling West | poems* by Joy Sullivan

This is 75: "Glorious Broad" Maryjane Fahey Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

The joy of God's love

History of Kalama's iconic Lelooska Totem Pole

David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News

Fragments from America

Books I Read in 2025 — mavis moon

Poetry Challenge: Memorize ‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Healing Power of Writing - Series 1 of 3: Acute Grief and Acceptance | Sacred Sorrows

Photos: Pope Francis’ Last Journey

You take good care of her.

Where are the organizations?

The Book Show

A video portrait - Bruce Herman

Books I Read in 2025

You don't have to carry the weight of the world

"Be Not Afraid" - A Mini-Sermon on Fear, Love, and Kent Brockman, Nadia Bolz-Weber — mavis moon

Sonnet on a Look from the Lord by Kelsey Peterson

Psalm 34—I did not know light could ring, nor faith stretch true as a plucked string. - Darkling Psalter

Aubade

Ekstasis | A Journal of Christian Poetry - Ekstasis Magazine (soon to become Inkwell)

Hopelessly Devoted

The Scourging of Christ

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

The Lent Project 2025

Blessing

Three Psalms for When It Seems Nothing Is As It Should Be

Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages by Grace Hamman

Psalm 88 - the darkest Psalm

Heritics and Peacemakers

Theory of generations - Wikipedia

Herman

"Through the Heart of Christ" - Sarah Condon - Mockingbird

All aboard the meal train

Executive Order

tender mercy

Devotees of Mt. Bachelor Ski Area Are Working to Take Their Mountain Back

Welding a Sculpture and Finding Hope

Did Someone Say My Name?

This 5-step method can quickly get a messy house back in order : Life Kit

Howard Gospel Choir - "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Lernvergnügenstag: A Day for the Joy of Learning

Books I Read in 2025

Shared Service Was ‘Pentecost Moment’ for Four California Congregations

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

They can’t both be true. But they are.

“Routine is disguised ritual.”

Dan's Top 40 - my brother Dan's playlist - 70s classics

Books I Read in 2024 -- added #25

Books I Read in 2024 — added #s 23 and 24

When God thought you up, it was a good day

New Eyes - Forgiving is not erasing

Holy Ground

Betty Reid Soskin - Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Instagram reel clip of Mockingcast . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mockingcast/id1224964658?i=1000677337035

Pied Beauty

Silence: a Sonnet for Remembrance Day

Laviena's Lasagna.docx

Sucker? Mooch?

The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers

What he *didn’t* say…

Rainy Night

Books I Read in 2024 — added #s 20 and 21 today

What do you need?

everything is information and nothing is failure

A Masquerade Moment

Mavis Moon's Podcast - The Examen, Sermons, and More — mavis moon

Practicing being dead.

Stranger than Fiction - Mockingbird

He Wrote a Story About Joy, Then Built a Tiny World to Match

Professor T. (Belgian TV series) - Wikipedia

God is not your dad.

Singing together is one of God’s gifts of love

Four basic rules

Trees and a purple cow

Don't go there, go THERE.

The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s

John Butler - Finding Stillness in a Chaotic World — mavis moon

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

Delayed Gratification

God doesn’t take it personally

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson

A Children's Bible | A Novel by Lydia Millet

A Body Meet a Body

And there are cows! - Saskia Boelsums

Liminal spaces, skyscapes - Saskia Boelsums

Finding Christ in Isolation: A Sonnet for Julian of Norwich

Our own stupidity - a reason for hope?

Christian Wiman | Poetry Foundation

The Shitthropocene | Full Film | Welcome to the Age of Cheap Crap

Tiny Jesus (choose "None" if prompted to access for free)

Kill the Creature by Christian Wiman (choose "None" if prompted to subscribe for free)

Thin Places | a natural history of healing and home by Kerri ni' Docharaigh

Field Notes for the Wilderness | Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey

Marie Howe’s Stunning Hymn of Humanity, Animated

Books I Read in 2024

Me, my Body, and I (You can choose "none" if prompted to subscribe.)

Jesus Is Tired. (You can choose "None" if prompted to subscribe.")

Silver Alert by Lee Smith

Certainty | Uncertainty

Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Plowshare Prayer & Blessing

Humility happened.

Surprise Cities: Monterey, California

Ash Wednesday

God doesn’t bite his fingernails. — mavis moon

God doesn’t bite his fingernails.

Slow Stuff - My first Substack - Hope you'll subscribe! Free.

The Year of Taylor Swift

The Cross, the Machine, the Cloud

Are Women Human? - Dorothy Sayers

Christian calendar. Beautiful art and reflection

“…her body had absorbed the habit of sadness, so that sadness flowed all through her and became a natural part of her movements.”

Making our bed—what works for me

Interesting choice. Right?!

Nepsis, or what am I thinking?

The Visit — An Advent devotional

For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory Forever.

Ctrl-Save moments of your life

…love solves very little of the most menacing and devastating problems.

Westminster Bells in Minneapolis

You place the flowers in the vase that you bought today-ay-ay.

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Barbara Brown Taylor

summitsj.com

An RMA* to God — a different way of looking at what we lose in life.

Thanks for calling. — mavis moon

My best advice for anyone struggling with prayer: Make a morning offering.

Not some. All. — A new "email of God's love" with new thoughts on an old, familiar quote.

Washington DC and Maine — June 2023 - Follow along with our trip if you'd like!

Light, of Course, Speaks by Patricia Davis

I’m looking out the window.

Prayer by Marie Howe

Death by Referral -amazing article!

Peter's Denial - The Biola Project April 3 2023

The Dean's Watch - scroll down to #6

All My Knotted up Life by Beth Moore - Books I Read in 2023-scroll to #5#5

Our Front Yard - Spring 2023 - Portraits of Flowers & a Movie

How to Stop Worrying Using the "Spare Thought" Method | CRC Network

Getty Museum- February 24, 2023 - Mavis Moon (MoonFamily)

God has made a decision about you

Spare Thought Worry Stoppage Method

The Examen - a daily prayer

The light - mavis moon

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade — mavis moon

Biola Advent Project for Dec. 5 2022--Her Hands on the Word by Sedrick Ervin Huckaby

Do I have to figure this out?

How would Jesus live if he were me? JesusMavis

“Where is my super suit?”

Stop All the Clocks

hope

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong — mavis moon

NOT fine

Capacious

The Best Homemade Black Cod — SAM THE COOKING GUY

4-ingredients Parmentier potatoes recipe that you will get in love with. These mi… | Vegetable side dishes healthy, Parmentier potatoes, Cooking boneless pork chops

Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor (blog)

You shall not be overcome

God says, "You are adorbs."

Love is physical--who knew?

Free by Florence & the Machine (and with Bill Nighy)

Hope & Perseverance - Blog

Pierre Favre-The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

Yuma, Gallup, Bryce, Zion - Blog

Oh hey, there you are. Hello.

God says, it's not up to you, WE will do it. Not earned--overflowing.

"Dones." Here’s How Religion Imprints Us — Even When We Walk Away

thoughts on conversation "Lessons Learned from January 6, 2021: Where Do People of Faith Go From Here?”

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach.

Let's Get Serious About Forgiveness

Big and Small - email of God's love

Moon Family Christmas 2021 Photo Collection

The Bowl by Jane Hirshfield

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

"Face computer"

Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren

Books I Read in 2021

Trying to befriend my body.

Always interested in definitions of hope

Wouldn't it be nice?

blog about a book I finished - Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Landscape - Email of God's love

Books I Read in 2021

Visited a beautiful mission on our celebratory weekend

Discerning

Oh me! Choose me!

My blog, mavismoon.com

Make-believe and grief

Jane Goodall on Hope and the Climate Crisis (Time)

It's who I am

Presence - God's love in his presence

Quintet of Sonnets for Mary

Don't be ashamed! (blog)

A smile before sleep. (blog)

Remodel pretty much done. A walkthrough.

Here we are. (blog)

The yard

We're in! Remodel blog update

Psalms - Bono and Eugene Peterson

Glad that the church is dwindling - "When One Tomb Closes, Another Opens."

Porque amor* - Email of God's love.

Looking down from the cross

It's always something - remodel blog update

How a Black designer made her way among the white élite - Anne Lowe - New Yorker magazine

Remodel blog - Trailer living

Busy day at the remodel.

Was Jesus pushing buttons?

The Remodel

"It is only kindness that makes sense anymore."

Opening the Heart's Door by Meister Eckhart

Possible Answers to Prayer by Scott Cairns

Spiritual Exercises in Jayville

Auschwitz survivor and Polish life saver story.

Krista Tippett and Ariel Burger, student of Elie Wiesel, interview. On Being.

"Nice Kitchen" - The remodel continues.

Biola University Lent Project - art, music, and a devotional

Catching up on the remodel blog

The Remodel blog - I think we're ready for the first day

The Remodel blog - Beginning & Before

Learning to Pray - book club with Fr. James Martin, SJ. Facebook Live

Dates, Numbers, and Invisible People - blog

They keep us humble - blog

Steven Greydanus, Christian film critic. SDG. Decent Films.

Josh Larsen, Christian film critic. LarsenOnFilm

Ruth Bader Ginsberg's story on Radiolab

Arts: Healing Balms for a Sick World - January Series - Peter O'Connor

Art+Faith, A Theology of Making, with Makoto Fujimura

January Series at Calvin University

How can Epiphany and what happened yesterday have anything to do with each other?

The Best of the Worst

"Ars Poetica #100: I Believe" by Elizabeth Alexander, A Poetry Film by Jocie Juritz

Dad in Vietnam photos (mixed with some of us in Lynden)

French Chicken Casserole

2020 Is a Great Year for the Church. We are not the church of Chicken Little.

Bless this body - even its slightly saggy chin

Contemporary black artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art

We must enter the Kingdom of God through much sorrow.

Where is God in a Pandemic? Tim Keller & Francis Collins, Biologos

Drawings by Children by Lisel Mueller

Katherine Paterson Film - Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

A hen. Email of God's Love.

Help in the time of coronavirus

Earthlings - email of God's love on my blog

The Mockingcast - Coronacation Survival Kit episode

Our camping trip in Railroad Park, Dunsmuir

Thresholds by John O'Donohue

"A Uniquely Christian Grammar"

"Book of Genesis" by Kei Miller

Poetry Unbound - Padraig O'Tuama

On Love Letters, Start with Memory, not Emotions, by Jonathan Rogers

Art by Jen Norton, "The Annunciation"

A Weekend With David Whyte - reflections in my blog

The Joy of the Lord is my Strength, Audrey Assad

A CHRISTIAN LIKE RICHARD J. MOUW | Friendship between the Reformed theologian and a Latter-day Saint historian.

January Series (from Calvin University)

My blogs - thoughts, things I read, travel, and family stories