by maylan schurch | Mar 18, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
How much of what you believe is true? And how, in your head, does an idea gets placed on the “really true” shelf? Here’s a little true-false quiz. (No need for “test panic”–I’ll give you my answers as we go along. See if you...
by maylan schurch | Mar 16, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
As I mentioned in my last Pastor’s Blog (“Tell Me What to Think?” which you can find in the archives to the right), I have a deep concern about thinking. How can we do it well? How can we stave off the superheated assertions of...
by maylan schurch | Mar 14, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Do you know what weighs most heavily on my heart these days? It’s thinking. How can we think more carefully, more thoughtfully? How can we learn not to let our brains be yanked around by people who raise their voices, on radio, on TV, in print, in real or...
by maylan schurch | Nov 4, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
Earlier this evening I walked into the south entrance of Bellevue’s Crossroads Mall, intent on breezing through the used book store there. But I’d taken barely a dozen steps when a cheerful male voice came over the sound system. “Attention,...
by maylan schurch | Oct 16, 2018 | Pastor's Blog
A few days back I had my mind changed. Sure, it’s still the same old brain which is phobic in heights and math. But it’s no longer anti-falafel. A falafel, according to my trusty Wikipedia, is of course “a Middle Eastern dish of spiced mashed...
